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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

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uk) has published titles by Simon Armitage, Bob Stanley, Barry Hines, Ian McMillan, Hunter Davies, Ray Gosling, David Gedge, Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian) and many more. In short, in trying to wrestle himself free from his background he's left with a problematic mistrust of interdependence and vulnerability, which (if I may play the psychologist) is perhaps behind the failure of his previous two relationships. frozen February mornings in flimsy nylon shorts and shirts, shivering, skin turning red, turning blue.

They had an antique wooden clock on the mantelpiece with a loud tick; it was so peaceful in there, the rhythm almost counted me down to sleep. The young Hodkinson read those books but found the protagonists too earthbound, too fixed in their northern locales. This is intercut throughout the book and, once I got used to switching in and out of the story, I found it touching and humane. Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain.It's about the schools, the music, the people - but pre-eminently and profoundly the books and authors that led the way and shaped his life. This is a funny, charming and delight to soak up, an unashamed celebration of a working class life/childhood and all of the simple and profound pleasures it brings along with it. Until he moved house it hadn’t really occurred to him quite how many books that Hodkinson actually owned. The second section is an essay that takes a swipe at class structures and the notion of being well-read and the difference between a bibliophile and bibliomaniac.

To begin with, Hodkinson adopts a familiar format: the books that made me a reader and this is interesting because it subverts the genre's familiar snobbishness. The great benefit of ebooks is that you can highlight passages and then save the highlights apart from the book.I reserved his book for 75p in hardback not long after it came out, had to wait for a couple of people, then it was mine! This is an impassioned hymn of praise and declaration of love for that complex cultural object, the book.

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