Not read...Being released to the world in hope of finding an owner.

Being released at the Boston Bookcrossing Meetup, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA

Caught at Sat. May 2017/Book-crossing meet-up! To be read!

This is the 2nd book of essays I've read by Hornby, they were originally published in the literary magazine the Believer, as was I think the previous collection. The spiel was books he had read and purchased since the last column and all his related thoughts/ramblings. Spoilers/sort of. If you like and admire Hornby's fiction writing, which I do this is another side to him. He's pretty anti-American as he is in his fiction, which makes me wonder why he allowed the film adaptations to be so Americanized in High Fidelity and Fever Pitch (which I did not realize was a memoir). He has a lot of opinions some of them interesting on film, pop culture, writing, books, and a host of other topics including football/soccer--this last one I find tedious but by Hornby's standards--I'm just a vacuous American chick (VAC). The intro is by author Sarah Vowell and was sort of mock sarcastic toward Hornby. I'm pretty sure I read an essay but him eviscerating her as a sell out in the story/essay collection I read to benefit children with autism -- so I'm mystified and again as a VAC I'm easily mislead: 1) either they are friends and had a falling out, and/or 2) they are friends and have a weird love/hate/co-dependent thing between them. Not really sure. Holding for now.

Picked this up at the bookcrossing meetup on Saturday. Thanks for passing it along!

Bounce back/via July 2018 meet-up. Holding for now.

Released Community Bookcase, cafeteria lower level, One Ashburton Place/McCormack Building Boston, MA 02108 - Sept. 2018

Whoops/sorry traveling, et al.