No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

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All this would have been bearable if the subject of the memoir was actually someone you've heard of.

I felt like I was living a parallel life: part of me on the sandy streets of Algiers, drinking strong coffee at Celeste’s restaurant; the other slightly feverish in snowed-in Rochdale. Ultimately, however, there are too many elements and the novel-memoir-cultural-history-becomes confused.On one hand, by having such a collection and planning to read all these books, you are making a fantastic statement of hope and revealing an investment in future self,’ she said.

The final endnotes are great fun with examples of books he owns with inscriptions and bookplates and descriptions off what the numerous TBR piles contain in his house.Until he moved house it hadn’t really occurred to him quite how many books that Hodkinson actually owned. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy is his story of growing up a working-class lad during the 1970s and 1980s. Hodkinson's imagery and sparks of comedy make it an enjoyable read, and his Northern, gravelly narration adds to its realism.