balancinghistorybooks 's review for:

Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby

3.0

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I really enjoyed Hornby's The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, and hoped that Stuff I've Been Reading would offer much of the same. Contrary to my expectations, I actually found this rather underwhelming. Yes, he discusses some interesting and varied books, and gives recommendations, but there is rather a lot of material that is in no way related to reading and literature - for instance, an awful lot is written about Arsenal here, and there are a couple of instances where he did not read any books, but wrote a Believer column anyway, and included it here. I have added a few tomes to my to-read list, but feel as though there are far more interesting reading memoirs out there.