Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home Paperback Susan Hill

from SmithSJ01

I really didn't know what to expect with this book. Well yes actually I did. I expected Susan Hill to discuss a year's worth of her reading from home. Whilst this happened you do have to delve deep within the covers to find this. Once you've worked your way through the people and authors Susan Hi...

from wandering_star

The premise of this book is that one day, Susan Hill was looking for a book, and she noticed the sheer number of books which she owned which she had never read, or in some cases even remembered seeing before: ("Here is a book called How To Train Your Aggressive Dog. But we have never had an aggre...

from elkiedee

Susan Hill was looking for a particular book one day. Everywhere she looked, she found at least a dozen books she had never read, sometimes as many as 200. Then she found books she had read, but coming across them prompted her to want to reread. She decided she would spend a year not buying any n...

from wandering_star

The premise of this book is that one day, Susan Hill was looking for a book, and she noticed the sheer number of books which she owned which she had never read, or in some cases even remembered seeing before: ("Here is a book called How To Train Your Aggressive Dog. But we have never had an aggre...

from lycomayflower

Well, nuts. This was disappointing. LW3 did warn me. What she said, I think, was, "It's not good like Anne Fadiman is good." Which, perhaps, is not fair (the comparison is not strictly one-to-one), but it is also, perhaps, inevitable, and absolutely bang-on accurate. Fadiman, in [Ex Libris], had ...