mixed feelings.

I struggled to complete the final 3 chapters, I found the earlier chapters more autobiographical

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This book is about me

Has sent me scuttling off to eBay to hunt out all the versions of the books I read as a child. Thank you Lucy Mangan.

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suitable for bookworms...nobody else

I loved this book and related to Lucy and her life times reading easily. But if you didn't get banned from exchanging library books every day in the summer holidays yoi might eonder what the fuss is about.
Lucy Mangan - how did you miss The Bobbsey Twins?!? tsk

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Fellow Bookworms ahoy!

A hugely enjoyable memoir of Mangan's childhood reading. Nostalgic, warm and witty. I loved it!

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Joy and comfort

Familiar, moving and delivered with wry wit and humour. The audio book reading reminds me of the most endearing elements of listening to Jeanette Winterson novels.

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A childhood lived in books

An absolute delight ! As each book title came up -Milly Molly Mandy! Stig of the Dump! The Family from one End Street ! I felt I was in the midst of a joyful conversation with a fellow BW. The intense childhood memories about visits to libraries - you can only share those joys with a fellow booklover, where reading is far more important than doing anything sporting, for example.

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Nostalgic walk through my book reading childhood

I feel this book was written for me, it was a beautiful walk through my childhood. Reminding me of some books I’d forgotten about....did every teacher read The Phantom Tollbooth to their class?
I made lots of reasons to listen to huge chunks of this book...longer walks etc and I didn’t want it to end. Lucy is brilliant at narrating her own story and it felt as though it brought some depth and meaning to it that someone else couldn’t have.
As a child I was a bookworm and as an adult I’ve found as much joy in people as I do books....well almost. And I’m glad I’m called Cordelia than ‘Anne with an e’

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Just perfect for the bookworms😁

I in general like to read a book about books so when I saw this title I knew have had to consume it😁 I enjoyed listening to this audiobook. The stories were interesting and well narrated.

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Thoroughly enjoyable

An entertaining listen throughout, and I think in a book like this, the fact that it was read by the author was very helpful. I do wonder if I would have preferred to read this rather than listen to it! Sometimes I had to go back and listen to a section over again, particularly if it was about a book I hadn't read. I recognised a fellow bookworm in Lucy, and many of her reading habits, as well as many of the books she delighted in, reflected my own as a child. Unlike Lucy, I can remember the exact moment when I realised that these were not just words on a page, and a book came alive for me. It was definitely one of the best moments of my life, somehow made better by the fact that it happened when I was alone.

Lucy, I have to give you one little correction. I actually stopped listening for a bit after you made this mistake, because I was so gutted! When you were talking about The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, you said that Lucy entered the wardrobe and met a talking lion, whom she loved, and whom the other children couldn't see at first, but then they saw him later. No, no, no! She meets the talking faun, Mr Tumnus, not Aslan, who comes into the story much later on. You are muddling it up with Prince Caspian, which was clearly your favourite of the series. What astounds me is that nobody corrected you on it, and that it got completely missed in the editing. So there you go!

However, apart from this, I loved the book, and they were many laugh-out-loud moments as well, particularly in those parts in which Lucy describes her family. Thank you for raising the status of us Bookworms.

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Do yourself a favour buy this book

I found myself lost in childhood memory and laughing out loud so often that my husband thought I was having a small fit.
Lucy’s ability to take you back to those days when the great joy in the world was a new fresh book that was yours alone is unique.
I have gone on to buy all her book and she must now write faster to keep up with my need to listen to her voice .
An absolute classic for all .

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