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Original Title:	Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
ISBN:	1846682657 (ISBN13: 9781846682650)
Edition Language:	English

Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

Susan Hill

Hardcover | Pages: 236 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 3376 Users | 612 Reviews

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Title	:	Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
Author	:	Susan Hill
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 236 pages
Published	:	October 8th 2009 by Profile Books
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Writing. Books About Books. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Essays. Biography Memoir

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This is a year of reading from home, by one of Britain's most distinguished authors.

Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time.

The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again.

A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill's eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years.

'Howards End is on the Landing' charts the journey of one of the nation's most accomplished authors as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.

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Unlike author Susan Hill I don't live in an old rambling farmhouse with aged beams and cosy nooks from which I can look upon "gently rising hills and graceful trees". Nor sadly do I have an elmwood staircase that could take me up to a landing with overflowing bookcases. But I do know the sensation of coming face to face with a mountain of unread books.Climbing the stairs one day in search of a book she knew was there, Hill discovers "at least a dozen, perhaps two dozen, perhaps two hundred" that

A lovely book with many interesting anecdotes and observations on books, told in easily-digestible vignettes. It will be a keeper for me, a nice reference for recommendations. Ms. Hill speaks directly to the reader with warmth and confides her passion interest in all things literary.

I adore books about books - and when I saw a Guardian Book Review of this book, I was interested. Unfortunately this book is not so much a book about books (nor a book about reading) as much as it is a book about People Susan Hill Has Met. Did you know she had lunch with Benjamin Britten who liked her novel? That she once waited on a doorstep with TS Eliot? E.M. Forster once stepped on her toes? Kingsley Amis once said to her in 'a genuine tone' that he was very proud of his son? That she

I have dipped into this book over the years (5 or so) that I have owned it, but this is the first time I have read it in its entirety. Highly recommended for book-lovers, book-hoarders and people who love literary trivia. Also recommended for people who love to make lists and comparisons, as one of the 'tasks' that author Susan Hills sets for herself is not only to spend a year reading only from her own bookshelves, but also to attempt to refine her books to an essential 40. We are what we read;

Great title: and quite a good book.I have a Goodread's category Books and Reading and this one fits the bill pretty well.Susan Hill devoted a year to reading or re-reading a selection of books from her own library, scattered about the many rooms of her old farmhouse in the Cotswolds where she has lived for many years. She came up with a list of 40 titles which represents a synthesis of what she thought was the best and most worthwhile, along the way giving an account of the many literary

I first picked up Howards End is on the Landing about a year ago from a local used bookstore. I thought it looked good at the time but I must have lost interest along the way since it sat, unread, on my shelves since its initial purchase. Luckily for me though something must have clicked a couple of weeks ago because my need to read it suddenly tripled. Howards End is on the Landing is a non fiction work from author/publisher, Susan Hill. It all begins one day when Susan goes in search of her

Read on kindleThis book is a fairly quick read, and I would think an absolute must for all book lovers and voracious readers. Those of us with a lot of books in pour houses (although I have far fewer than Susan Hill) have those which we have read several times, those we have never read and those which seem to have appeared without us realising. This is a book about how those books of Susan Hill's got there, what they mean, or why they have so far remained ignored. Susan Hill decided to spend a