Stuff I've Been Reading Series by Nick Hornby, Sarah Vowell, Jess Walter

3.73 · 60 ratings
  • The Polysyllabic Spree (Stuff I've Been Reading #1)
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    The Polysyllabic Spree (Stuff I've Been Reading #1)

    Nick Hornby

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2004

    The Polysyllabic Spree is the first title in the Believer Book series, which collects essays by and interviews with some of our favorite authors—George Saunders, Zadie Smith, Michel Houellebecq, Janet Malcolm, Jim Shepard, and Haruki Murakami, to name a few. In his monthly column "Stuff I've Been Reading", Nick Hornby lists the books he's purchased and the books he's read that month—they almost never overlap—and briefly discusses the books he's actually read... more

  • Housekeeping vs. the Dirt (Stuff I've Been Reading #2)
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    Housekeeping vs. the Dirt (Stuff I've Been Reading #2)

    Nick Hornby, Sarah Vowell, Jess Walter

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2006

    In this latest collection of essays following The Polysyllabic Spree, critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading... more

  • The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (Stuff I've Been Reading #1-2)
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    The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (Stuff I've Been Reading #1-2)

    Nick Hornby

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2005

    In his monthly accounts of what he's read; along with what he may one day read – Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, then all is not lost... more

  • Shakespeare Wrote for Money (Stuff I've Been Reading #3)
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    Shakespeare Wrote for Money (Stuff I've Been Reading #3)

    Nick Hornby

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2008

    With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Nick Hornby from The Believer magazine. Hornby's monthly reading diary is unlike any arts column in any other publication; it discusses cultural artifacts the way they actually exist in people's lives. Hornby is a voracious and unapologetic reader, and his notes on books — highbrow and otherwise — are always accessible and hilarious.

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