Love, Nina, (Paperback)

from katsmiao

I'm glad lots of people love this book. It's not a bad book, it's just kinda boring and blah. it wasn't for me.

from Citizenjoyce

After Nina Stibbe is done nannying she goes to university and majors in English. She describes a class she takes Autobiography/Fiction in which she discovers that a writer has to add a little fiction to her autobiography to make the truth of it seem real. The book consists of supposed letters to ...

from melissarochelle

Read from March 22 to May 23, 2014 I finished ANOTHER book. This is miraculous. After not reading for a couple of months to finish TWO books in a week is quite a feat. So I started reading this one a couple of weeks after discovering I was pregnant. The exhaustion wasn't totally terrible yet, but...

from pgchuis

These letters were affectionate and amusing and I enjoyed both the characters and the very British humour. A bit lacking in plot or narrative arc, but I suppose that would have required more manipulation of the source material.

from frogball

I found this a nice book to have lying around to pick up and enjoy a few pages at odd times. It might help to know something of the London literary landscape and the reputation of NW1 (Camden, not Bloomsbury, as a negative review on LT says), but it's not essential. Alan Bennett was a neighbour a...