Una vita da lettore

I had a breakthrough. You know, like you get after months, maybe years, of intensive therapy. The solution had been staring me in the face – it’s often the way, isn’t it. The thing was, the lowest shelf of my shelves of novels – it’s actually the space between the real lowest shelf and the floor - w Leggi tutto

This is not a book of book reviews. This is a book about book reading experience with some related things and comments on books read and bought each month (which are listed, along with books left unfinished... if the book was particularly disliked, they are left anonymous-looking: no negativity in t Leggi tutto

Books about books, what’s not to love. Funny and enjoyable but skimmed some parts.

Raccolta di saggi narrativi/recensioni presi dalla rubrica mensile tenuta da Hornby per la rivista Believer. Riflessioni, spunti, divagazioni messe giù con il suo classico stile divertente e sensibile allo stesso tempo. Anche se non ha pubblicato tutte cose indimenticabili, Hornby è una voce della nar Leggi tutto

Questo libro non mi ha preso. Per carità, Nick Hornby è simpatico, ironico, intelligente, pungente, un amico quasi, ma i libri che recensisce sono libri inglesi o americani, a me sconosciuti -o, se qualcuno lo conosco, non l'ho letto- e le battute che l'autore fa nel corso dei commenti rimangono inc Leggi tutto

The absolute BEST THING about this book is that each chapter begins with a list of BOOKS BOUGHT and a list of BOOKS READ , and you can probably guess which list is usually longer. Though I've read and enjoyed three fiction books by Hornby, his tribute to reading left me feeling uninspired. I didn't ad Leggi tutto

"Ascoltate, vi confesserò una cosa che nessuno vi dirà mai: se non leggete i classici o il romanzo che ha vinto l'ultimo Booker Prize, non vi succederà niente di male, e soprattutto, se li leggete non vi succederà niente di straordinario. Voglio soltanto dire che voltare le pagine non dovrebbe esser Leggi tutto

This book was a joy! I have to congratulate myself for reading it, I laughed a lot, unexpectedly, I might think now I quite like the humorous art in which Nick Hornby writes (non fiction, at least). (On a side note, I have to add that I only read one of his novels, which was mostly a struggle, but th Leggi tutto

I'm holding Mr. Hornby accountable for many of the books I added on the to-read shelf in the past few weeks. And if you see me reading David Copperfield it's entirely his fault. But if I'll be listening to the audio book it'll be because, well, Richard Armitage.

While Nick Hornby is best known for his fiction that includes books like High Fidelity and About a Boy, some maybe familiar with his column in The Believer called Stuff I’ve Been Reading. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is the combination of two U.S. titles from his column, The Polysyllabic Spree an Leggi tutto