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Book-hunting (The USA in 50 Books, Part 2)
It’s one thing to say that there’s a book you want to read; it’s another thing to find it. I’ve written about my current big reading project, reading a book for every state of the USA. I’m currently halfway through book #45 of this (Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, representing Delaware, thanks for asking.) The…
The USA in 50 Books
I’ve just left Ohio, and I’m about to enter Delaware. After that, I head into West Virginia and South Carolina, then pass through Tennessee and Connecticut on my way to Idaho. Those of you familiar with the geography of the United States might be wondering what on earth’s wrong with my map. None of those…
The Regent Book Sale
James McNeish’s Lovelock, the fictionalised biography of the great 1500m runner from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, is quite possibly the best sports novel I’ve read. Maybe that sounds like damning with faint praise! How many great sports novels have there been? Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding was pretty good, Hunter Davies has written a…
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Brook and the Book 