Anne Fadiman is–by her own admission–the sort of person who learned about sex from her father’s copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate’s 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the
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THE SUNDAY REVIEW | 84, CHARING CROSS ROAD & THE DUCHESS OF BLOOMSBURY STREET – HELENE HANFF
“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me! I owe it so much. In 1949 Helene Hanff, ‘a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books,’ wrote to Marks & Co. Booksellers of 84 Charing Cross Rd, in search of rare editions she was unable to find in
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THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE UNCOMMON READER – ALAN BENNETT
From one of England’s most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning The History Boys, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading. When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the
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I’D RATHER BE READING…
It’s Monday morning, I didn’t sleep well and I really wish I could just go home and curl up in my nice, cosy chair because I have a whole stack of good books to read! Here are a few that are on my to-read-next list: The Hundred-Year-Old Man (Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared)
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READING: THE CLOSEST TO MAGIC YOU’LL FIND OUTSIDE OF HOGWARTS
Though technically that’s in a book, too, so…. I remember as a child when I first learned how to really read. Not just laboriously figure out what each word was and then have to go back and figure out the meaning of the sentence, but how to read well enough that I could see the
