![]() ![]() And if you’re reading Farnam Street, you’re probably a book lover, or at least a liker. Ten Years in the Tub is a fun read precisely because it’s a window into a book lover’s soul. Hornby is everything you want in someone writing about books: cheeky, wry humor self-aware, non-nerdy. By my count, he read about 60 in the first year alone, so he was active. Once a month, Hornby would list all the books he bought and all of the books he managed to read that month, then he’d write about the ones he’d read. ![]() (All three became movies - Fever Pitch twice.) The book is a collection of ten years of Hornby’s columns for the magazine The Believer. If you don’t know him, Hornby is the English author of novels like About a Boy, Fever Pitch, and High Fidelity. I’m not sure how I missed Nick Hornby’s Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books when it was released a few years ago. “All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal…With each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.” – Nick Hornby ![]()
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