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Originally Posted by issybird
To offset The Library Book, I'd like to mention another book that fits the theme but is too short for a club discussion. I was totally charmed by The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, which is the account of how Elizabeth II discovered reading. Very funny and insightful, it made my ten-best list the year I read it.[...]
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I did look at some Alan Bennett as part of my researches for this, but came to much the same conclusion: too short and too expensive. His name comes up in connection with another book called
The Library Book, which would have been relevant to this theme.