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

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Emily Ratajkowski shows off her taut abs in a brown bralette top on night out in New York City... before joining Irina Shayk courtside I was drawn to this book by the title and cover, being myself a working-class reader. Admittedly, I am from London, rather than the North, and female, rather than male, but the time period that the author grew up in is the same as mine and much of this felt familiar. Also, while as a bookish girl I was often derided or treated with suspicion, the author also struggled with those who saw it as a less manly passtime and, like me, he was told to get out more or informed reading so much would leave him needing glasses... Some kids grow up dreaming of fast cars and fancy clothes. Others just want books and records. If that was you, particularly if you grew up in a small northern town where people said the word "book" the way they said the word "voodoo", this is probably your story. Even if you didn't, chances are you’ll love it’

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Many readers will doubtless relate to Mark Hodkinson's memoir of growing up in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. I found the grandad parts a bit of a distraction. It's an article of faith to me to read books sequentially (even though nobody would ever know if I didn't!) but I really wanted to read the main narrative, and then another grandad section would appear, which I would try not to skim before resuming the thread.

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On one hand, by having such a collection and planning to read all these books, you are making a fantastic statement of hope and revealing an investment in future self,’ she said. ‘Even if you recognise you probably won’t have time to read them all, you are already forming a relationship with mortality which we all must do at some point in our lives. The snag is the frustration you say you feel that comes with this relationship. This is something you need to deal with and accept. I sense that some of this dissatisfaction is because, for whatever reason, you have not read as many of these books as you’d have liked and you spend a lot of time projecting yourself into the future: a time and a place where and when you will finally do all the reading that you’ve always wanted to do. I also think that you see books subconsciously as a safety net. Everyone has a primal fear of abandonment and you have suffered this twice in your life. Most people experience this or similar and the pain is such that, in many different ways, they make preparations so that it either doesn’t happen again, and that can go as far as avoiding future relationships altogether, or setting down to themselves a clearly defined coping mechanism. I think, to you, books are metaphorical friends and part of the reason you have so many is that, ever so slightly and in a perfectly normal way, you have lost a little bit of trust in the world. Eventually he achieves his ambition to write books himself. There are excellent sections at the end where he visits analysts to assuage or test his worry that he has too many books and may suffer from a hoarding affliction (bibliomania) rather than just being a bibliophile. Interesting accounts of these meetings are told almost verbatim. The final endnotes are great fun with examples of books he owns with inscriptions and bookplates and descriptions off what the numerous TBR piles contain in his house.Hodkinson manages to discuss books with no element of showing off or of demonstrating how well read he is, which is a relief. Indeed, later he has some trenchant and, I think, accurate criticisms of the way that a privileged elite still determine what is meant by “well read” and of how that same privileged elite dominates the publishing industry and the “literary” world. Dean McDermott reveals he spent Thanksgiving at sober living facility and NOT with Tori Spelling and their kids