Stuff I've Been Reading

May 29, 2008 / Add comment

Brijit

This installment finds Hornby mulling over the act of reading itself, spurred by his 5-year-old's emerging abilities. First he dips into The Child That Books Built for "the best description I know of what if feels like to learn to read," and then segues -- with a touch of fatherly shame -- into The Rights of the Reader, a "lovely" book about how parents and teachers quash a child's desire to read while attempting to teach him how. Hornby also discusses Sherman Alexie's new young-adult novel and a cricketer's diary, the latter of which he admits will bewilder his American audience.