And as I read the book, while I revelled in the story, in the back of my mind I kept wondering “Why would Bennett pick the Queen?” Usually, I don’t worry too much about things like that, but it just wouldn’t leave me alone. The uncommon reader herself is Queen Elizabeth II, and the story is that she discovers the joy of books and gets more and more wrapped up in the world of reading (and consequently pays less attention to her duties). It’s a delicate, wonderful fable all about reading, and eventually writing. I was actually the first person to check it out (it’s a tiny library), and I just loved it. I’d seen this one mentioned around the blogosphere before, but it wasn’t until Ted mentioned that Bennett also wrote the play “The History Boys” (I saw the movie version and looooved it) that I was spurred to look it up in my library catalog. ) To ease myself back into the swing of things, I thought I’d review my first read for the Novella Challenge: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. A review! For a challenge! It’s almost as if I’m a book blogger.
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