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Cover Half-Title Dedication Title Contents Preface. Or, finding solace in pages 1. Handwritten dedications in old books 2. Visiting someone’s home and inspecting the bookshelves 3. Impromptu bookmarks 4. Reading in bed 5. Beginning a new book 6. When the lovers get together 7. Reading in a tent 8. Blotches, stains and other reminders of where and when you read a book 9. Old bookshops 10. Hiding yet more purchases from partners 11. Just giving up 12. Reading to a child 13. Reading a travel book about somewhere you’ll never visit 14. Feeling bereft having finished a book 15. Scribbles in the margins 16. Losing an afternoon organising bookshelves 17. When a novel makes you snivel 18. Not ‘getting’ a book people rave about 19. When film and TV adaptations get it right 20. Smells of books, old or new 21. Feverishly awaiting the next book in a series 22. Hurting with laughter as you read 23. Libraries 24. Large bookshops 25. Discovering an author with a back catalogue to catch up on 26. Watching a child learn to read 27. Re-reading an old favourite 28. When the plot clicks into place 29. Buying a luxury volume that doesn’t fit on a shelf 30. Author dedications 31. Reading in a pub 32. Spying on what others are reading 33. Chaotic book rooms and enthusiastic owners trying to find something for you 34. Enthusing to someone about a book 35. Pristine books 36. The back cover 37. Reading on public transport 38. Escaping into an atlas 39. Moving in with somebody and finding doubles 40. Giving a book as a present 41. The calm a room of books brings 42. Pretending to have read something you should have 43. Hotel, B&B and cottage ‘libraries’ 44. Squeezing a book onto the shelf 45. Choosing and anticipating holiday reading 46. Letting poetry tingle your spine 47. Remembering a book from childhood 48. Getting waylaid looking at a dictionary 49. Feeling a book is intimately for you 50. Finishing a book, putting it down, and thinking about it Acknowledgements Copyright
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