Who wants to give away a million books?
Here's an interesting project being planned for next year's World Book Day: World Book Night. Would you give away a pile of copies (donated by the publisher) of any of the books on the list to people you thought really ought to read it? And which would you give?
... having just read it with my book group, I'd probably opt for Stuart: A Life Backwards, by Alexander Masters - the funny, traumatic, frustrating and for me, very enlightening (though bleak) story of a homeless man from Cambridge. It was a real eye-opener and many Britons in our (still, relatively) comfortable middle-class lives might discover a few truths by reading it.
... having just read it with my book group, I'd probably opt for Stuart: A Life Backwards, by Alexander Masters - the funny, traumatic, frustrating and for me, very enlightening (though bleak) story of a homeless man from Cambridge. It was a real eye-opener and many Britons in our (still, relatively) comfortable middle-class lives might discover a few truths by reading it.