Biscuit books similar8/23/2023 ![]() Please contact me here for details of my postal address I will gratefully accept any books, bookish paraphernalia or thoughtful gifts (always worth a try), and I will attempt to review any books or products which are relevant to the ethos of my blog. I hope you enjoy browsing and look forward to seeing more of you at The Book and Biscuit. I might yet finish it one day, though in all honesty, probably not. The only book I’ve ever given up on never to return to was James Joyce’s Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man. When I start a book, I try to finish it, even if I don’t enjoy it at first because I am convinced it will get better. I find it exciting when I read a book that others have lambasted, and feel let down when I read a classic which leaves me feeling cold. I am open-minded, I will read almost anything once and don’t let literary snobbery get in my way. ![]() That said, I do stray into non-fiction for fun occasionally and I often enjoy it. I tend to read less non-fiction because in my day job I work as an editor on academic books so spend a lot of time reading non-fiction manuscripts. My tastes are eclectic, though they mainly focus on fiction and poetry. Sometimes people think I’m easily distracted, I’m not, I’m just concentrating on the people in the book I was reading earlier. I always have a book tucked in my bag just waiting to break free. What does that say about me? Well, I read everywhere I go. ![]() Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “A man is known by the books he reads”. I firmly believe that there is a book for all occasions, and that the experience can be enhanced with the addition of a biscuit and a nice cup of tea. Updated erratically, The Book and Biscuit is less a blog and more a haphazard scrapbook of a life spent reading, with notes on books scribbled when I get time. I started The Book and Biscuit in July 2010 to help me share my love of all things bookish with like-minded people.
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