More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself

from arubabookwoman

This is the third of Hornby's books collecting his columns relating to books and reading. I very much enjoy his take on books and life in general, but I find myself rationing my reading of them because I can take his snarkiness in only moderate doses. He frequently says that the magazine he works...

from SigmundFraud

Nick Hornby is one of my favorite contemporary fiction writers. More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, is not fiction but rather a collection of book reviews that he wrote for THE BELIEVER. They are a joy to read. He wri...

from debnance

I've read a good bit of Nick Hornby, but I have to say that my favorite Nick Hornby books are these, the books composed of essays he has written for The Believer. Hornby has compiled several books now that are composed entirely of essays about the books Hornby is reading. Oddly, I haven't read mu...

from TCWriter

Another typically engaging, witty collection of Hornby's book review columns from the Believer magazine. This is the fourth book in the series, and given the time frame, perhaps the most relevant. Hornby (already one of my favorite writers) lists the books he's purchased over the last month and t...

from SigmundFraud

I follow Nick Hornby's book reviews regularly in The Believer or I buy a compilation of his recent reviews. He is a feisty writer. This last book of reviews is as good as all of them. I am an avid reader and I like to know what Nick thinks of books. He also frequently references other books in hi...