One day Bookish will be an acceptable nationality for your passport. It is not about where you are born; it’s about which books you are living in. Save Map Reading in Practice - Southwell Library - Adult Learning to your collection. Share Map Reading in Practice - Southwell Library - Adult Learning with your friends. In the second, he talks about undergoing a brain scan, muses on what sleep and dreams reveal about our reality and remembers a moment of transcendence at the Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis.

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This is a very rich one-year memoir of Robin Ince accepting the challenge to do a tour of 100 independent bookshops, but being a bit of an obsessive, he actually visits many more than that. Most travelling gets done by train, and the vehicular cardiganned Robin crams his bags with treasures from almost each shop, subsisting on biscuits, or possibly cake. What a life! Save Igniting Reading and Writing in Primary Schools to your collection. Share Igniting Reading and Writing in Primary Schools with your friends. Save ROBIN INCE: Biblio Maniac to your collection. Share ROBIN INCE: Biblio Maniac with your friends.Save Adults Acrylic Painting Workshop - Christmas Robin (All abilities welcome) to your collection. Share Adults Acrylic Painting Workshop - Christmas Robin (All abilities welcome) with your friends.

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I enjoyed this book, but feel it has a relatively narrow audience that would have the same connection to it, hence the three star rating. Robin Ince is quite clearly addicted to buying books with an almost random enthusiasm, and this book is arguably more about that addiction than about the hundred bookstore tour he did that is the hook the book is hung on. Robin Ince is an English comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox.

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Is hideous prose and ghastly poetry more fabulous than great literature? Determined to find out, award-winning comedian Robin Ince has spent most of the 21st century rummaging through charity shops, jumble sales, and even the odd skip to compile the defining collection of the world’s worst inadvertently hilarious books. Anyway, Ince's love of books and joy in talking about them comes through strongly in Bibliomaniac. He is a compelling and very funny writer, both about travel and books. I laughed out loud at anecdotes like this: You may think you have a book problem but, as likely as not, comedian Ince’s will dwarf it. Incapable of exiting a bookshop with just one volume, he ran out of shelf space long ago – and that’s after he donated 6,000 books to charity. In 2021, when Covid nixed a tour he’d planned with Prof Brian Cox, Ince hit on the idea of visiting 100 bookshops around the UK in just two months, notionally promoting his last book, The Importance of Being Interested. There’s some nice travel writing here as he wends his way from Wigtown to Penzance, along with cosy anecdotes about the folk he encounters and some madcap tangents, invariably prompted by his eclectic reading habits. She and Her Cat Robin Ince buys a LOT of books- especially from the charity shops and in comparison I feel far less concerned than I did about owning too many.

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Save An Evening With Sheikh Mishary Rashid Alafasy - Manchester to your collection. Share An Evening With Sheikh Mishary Rashid Alafasy - Manchester with your friends. So what is the bibliomaniac currently reading? “The first one is Invisible Painting ,” says Robin. “It’s about the great British-Mexican surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington, and was written by her son, Gabriel Weisz Carrington. I’m also reading Myths of Gender: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto Sterling, who’s a very interesting biologist and kind of activist. And I’ve just started re-reading Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys, because I think I might choose it for the book club. Plus, I’m reading Anna Minton’s Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21 st Century .”Save Psychic Nights One To One Reading to your collection. Share Psychic Nights One To One Reading with your friends.

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In 2005, Ince began running the Book Club night at The Albany, London, where acts are encouraged to perform turns of new and experimental material. The club gets its name from Ince's attempts to read aloud from, and humorously criticise, various second-hand books which the audience brought in for the occasion. The Book Club proved to be so successful that Ince took it on a full UK tour in 2006. In 2010, Ince published a book entitled Robin Ince's Bad Book Club about his favourite books that he has used for his shows. My favourite librarian story comes from Stoke Newington. A ninety-two-year-old book-lover whose eyesight meant she relied on talking books decided she should hear Fifty Shades of Grey. The librarian warned her it was a bit racy, but she was having none of it. Two weeks later, she rang the librarian: "Disc four is filthy." "I did warn you." "No, it's filthy, it looks like it's got jam or marmalade on it. It won't play at all." In the first, the comic considers his anxiety and ADHD tendencies; shares his experience of therapy; recalls an awkward meeting with an actor he reveres and his Celebrity Mastermind appearance; reveals how he enjoys singing to himself in a made-up language and delivers an extended impression of Stewart Lee. I think I love books more than I love reading. Their company means there is always the possibility of something to be discovered, waiting for me between the covers, which hasn't even entered my imagination yet. A small but pleasing change in my reality is waiting on every shelf. Though he also discusses topics like succulent cake, controversial cinema and claustrophobic water closets, it's never long before Ince shares another curiosity from his teetering 'to be read' book pile at home and how it somehow impacted on his life. Hearing all this directly from the man is particularly pleasing, especially the incidental footnotes he slips into the recording. It all goes to show just how busy a mind this comic personality has and how endearing his passion for reading is.Save AN EVENING WITH 44TEETH - NEVER MEET YOUR HERO'S TOUR to your collection. Share AN EVENING WITH 44TEETH - NEVER MEET YOUR HERO'S TOUR with your friends. Exploring the human brain's relationship with reality, the show features Ince talking about his ADHD and how he sings to himself in a made-up language Save An Evening with Rob Parsons - Sheffield to your collection. Share An Evening with Rob Parsons - Sheffield with your friends.