An affectionate, warm guide on the healing power of reading. * Independent * Comforting, funny and moving - Bookish is wonderful to curl up with on good days and bad. * Sali Hughes * A bookworms delight. A joyous whistle stop tour through some books Ive loved all my life as well as books I discovered through reading it. I devoured this book. * Sara Collins * Lucy Mangan on books is like butter on toast: perfect. * Caitlin Moran * Such a gorgeous writer Funny, warm and charming A beautiful, warm, comic voice. If youre a passionate reader, this book feels like the best conversation ever with another of your kind. I was engaged, comforted, educated (about SO much). I laughed, and wanted to be part of your family, and made lists of all the books I need to buy, and was very moved. * Marian Keyes * What Mangan does brilliantly is express the experience of reading and articulate the emotional connections we make with stories. She understands how books become entwined in our lives and help us make sense of the world. * Observer (Bookworm) * An unabashed paean to the pleasure of acquiring more books than you could ever possibly read in your life a whirlwind tour through her [ Mangans] voracious, encyclopedic adult reading habit This is a book by someone whom reading is life * Spectator * Bookish tackles the myriad complexities of adulthood[ Mangan] makes for a wonderfully incisive critic and can pick apart a George Orwell with the same perspicacity with which she can, say, a Jack Reacher, or the lesser-known Brontė sister, Anne * Observer * Readers wont share all of Mangans preferences, but thats part of the point its enjoyable enough to eavesdrop on the pleasures of a committed bookworm A book on books needs marginalia, and this one doesnt disappoint * Times Literary Supplement * Brimful of recommendations, packed with insights and sprinkled with wry observations, Bookish is a delight * Simple Things *
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