Full title: You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain. I was in Manchester (the one in England) earlier in the month and thoroughly enjoyed wandering around the Christmas markets, visiting the John Rylands Library , doing a spot of Christmas shopping and eating good food. I only managed to visit one bookshop, and when I can't visit more than one, I try to make it count and therefore I chose Waterstones. The Waterstones I visited in Manchester isn't nearly as large as the big one London, but it was big enough to make me happy. I don't really need more books and when I buy them new I try to choose ones I know or expect will become keepers. I've already been disappointed by one of my purchases ( The Soul of an Octopus ) and I can only hope the remaining books I bought will not be as disappointing. The book under review here is actually one of the books I considered buying, but didn't. I then came across it second hand at a fraction of the p...
Bookish expressions of a Bibliophile living in Reykjavík