Ten Years In The Tub

In between this year's more frivolous reads I have been dipping into Nick Hornby's 'Ten years in the tub'. It's a collection of his regular column, called 'Stuff I've been reading' from The Believer magazine. (The Believer is an arts and literary magazine that is published by Dave Eggers in San Francisco).

Each piece starts with a list of 'Books I've bought' and a list of 'Books I've read', with the exception of one chapter that digresses into films.I love lists so I adored this part of the book. Interestingly enough the two lists don't often corespond. I'm pleased to find that I'm not alone in buying books and then setting them aside to be rediscovered at a later date.

Each column is a discussion, rather then review, of the books read and also contains the writer's musings on a variety of things - which may, or may not, relate to the books that have been read. It was very enjoyable and it touched on a wide variety of topics. I also liked following the thread of what he read, as one book very often lead to another or connected to another in some way.

I loved it when he discussed books that I had read and I also came away with a long list of books that I would like to read. Essentially this is a book about books, a read about reading, it's kind of nerdy yet good.

 Recommended for book lovers.