I’ve just finished The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. It took forever to get my hands on it — Multnomah County owns 12 copies but there were many people waiting. It took only a couple of hours to read, but what a pleasure. The premise is that the Queen, in wrangling her incorrigible corgis, discovers [...]
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Uncommonly good
Posted in Book Reviews, Humor, Librarians, UK, reading on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Comic Relief: Lapham Rising
Posted in Book Reviews, Humor on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes it gets to be all a bit too much – I just started reading The Archivist’s Story, which takes place in Russia in the nightmarish years after the revolution. So far it promises to be a good read, but not – let’s face it – summer candy. This reminded me of a book that [...]
