Rating: 4 out of 5

I’m not a bookworm. Nor have I ever been. Or at least, not if I compare myself with Lucy Mangan. Yes I read a lot. Yes I can still be found in a corner of a room reading something. But I missed a lot of the books she read. There were some I read that she didn’t mention - all the Swallows and Amazons books for instance - but there are plenty she lists for me to investigate and maybe catch up on. I daren’t look to see how many samples I’ve sent to my kindle!

Highlighted passage:

You can’t wear out a book’s patience

We are born, we die, and if we’re lucky we make some good friends along the way who will remember us when we’re gone. it’s enough. Not least because it has to be

Originally posted to my Goodreads account