{"id":7048861,"date":"2026-08-27T05:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/a-love-letter-to-reading\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:24:29","slug":"a-love-letter-to-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7048861","title":{"rendered":"A Love letter to Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Since everybody reading this blog will be an avid reader themselves, I thought my little review of this book would fit right in. I loved this book.<\/p>\n

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Lucy Mangan\u2019s Bookworm<\/i>, about the joys of children\u2019s literature, was a little overwhelming. That\u2019s not a criticism; rather, she wrote in such detail about all the books she\u2019d read as a child that my mind reeled at the detail she dived into. She seemed to have read every book written for children \u2013 in English \u2013 ever! And while I\u2019d read a lot of them, I hadn\u2019t read nearly as many as her \u2013 probably about a quarter actually – so had no frame of reference for most of her comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(It did introduce me to Gwen Grant\u2019s Private \u2013 Keep Out<\/i> though, and for that I\u2019ll be grateful for the rest of my days.)<\/p>\n

Bookish: A Love Letter to Reading<\/i> is \u2013 well, for me at least \u2013 far more accessible. Mainly because I\u2019ve read just about all the books she writes about and so can involve myself more deeply in her thoughts and judgements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s pure pleasure to discover them. She takes in everything from early YA, to set texts at school, to an English Lit degree at Cambridge, bonkbusters and bestsellers\u2026 Lucy Mangan likes to read! And her enthusiasm makes me want A) to run right out and ransack my nearest bookshop and B) take another crack at The Da Vinci Code<\/i>. (Which I think is probably the worst-written book ever published, but which she continued reading, even when a snotty colleague at the Guardian <\/i>wondered out loud why she was wasting her time on such rubbish. Because, she says, she was enjoying the story, and if that isn\u2019t the definition of a good time with a book, what is?)<\/p>\n

Lucy Mangan just likes to read, and Bookish<\/i> is a loving, wonderfully entertaining tribute to doing just that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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