on ‘The Uncommon Reader’
Written on December 10, 2008
Thanks to the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program I received a copy of The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett, in which the Queen of England has a chance encounter with a bookmobile that sparks her interest in reading. The book focuses on the transformative effects of reading and the rather dismayed response of the palace staff. Towards the middle of the book I was feeling rather sorry for Her Majesty, but a little plot twist at the end put her in quite a different light. This book would make a good “stocking stuffer” for bibliophiles.
Filed in: reading.
