Alan Bennett - The Uncommon ReaderNot having enough money to buy this book, too, and it being rather short, I sat down in the bookshop café and read it there and then in one go. One finds it quite amusing. So amusing in fact that when I was in the middle of the book, the man at the neighbouring table asked to see the title
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We do have the Reclam books that are given their own corner/shelf/whatever in every bookshop up and down the country.
But the foreign language section - if the bookshop carries it - is almost always sorted in this manner:
-> several shelves given over to English books
- first bilingual books
- then Penguin Classics
- then Wordsworth Classics (though Penguin and Wordsworth may change position)
- followed by the rest of the English publications (not the Reclam books though)
- finally, depending on what other languages they have on offer, Espanol, Francais, Italiano, Russian, etc.
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Also, wanna chat?
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For my lit studies, some of my medieval texts came in volumes like that, too.
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Though it remains to be seen whether I'm going to keep it for any length of time. Now, that I've discovered the joys of changing one's layout every once in a while ...
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Must be the reason why we're all such good friends. We just know about the important things in a bookaholic's life. heh.
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