This week I'm starting Mark This Book Monday with a mini review for a small book in size but big in content and enjoyment!
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book really is a little gem. The bf found it during one of our bookstore expeditions and I claimed it to read first.
It is a short book, so it is a quick read but it is not a book you read flying through the pages. It is more of a slow read, smiling here and there and enjoying the critiques and satire here and there even if it falls to some stereotypes on occasion with the choices of books and what defines them as good or bad or even mored readable or not. That could also be part of the intention of the book, but was the one cliche that I wasn't too happy about.
Recommended for everyone, but more in particular to all those bookworms out there that get odd looks for keeping their noses in a book.
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The Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book really is a little gem. The bf found it during one of our bookstore expeditions and I claimed it to read first.
It is a short book, so it is a quick read but it is not a book you read flying through the pages. It is more of a slow read, smiling here and there and enjoying the critiques and satire here and there even if it falls to some stereotypes on occasion with the choices of books and what defines them as good or bad or even mored readable or not. That could also be part of the intention of the book, but was the one cliche that I wasn't too happy about.
Recommended for everyone, but more in particular to all those bookworms out there that get odd looks for keeping their noses in a book.
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Oh, I love these little accidentally discovered gems!
ReplyDeleteAnd I even read while I walk! I keep running into people because I read on my phone while walking throgh town. A book this entrancing is just for me. :)
I never stop reading if I can either! Walking & reading not as much, but I've done that occasion too! Nothing like having reading apps on the phones!!
DeleteYou need to check this one, Maja!
Uncle Allen!!! ;)
ReplyDeleteHuh I hadn't heard of this one before it sounds like a short but great read. I often have hard times with shorter books like this but it sounds like the author pulled it off.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, sometimes seems that the stories on short books are rushed, but not in this one, and the way it ends, almost the best part of the book!
DeleteIsn't it awesome when you stumble upon a book that you haven't heard of before, and it turns out to be awesome? Thanks for sharing Pili!
ReplyDeleteJeann @ Happy Indulgence
Yeah, me and the bf were browsing around and he came with the book in hand saying we had to get it, and he was so right!
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