Books, bread and butter, mashed potato one finishes what’s on one’s plate. With all his characteristic light-heartedness, Bennett brings the monarch to life in a way all readers can understand whether they’re royalists or not, because he does it through the love of reading itself. Other words.A book is a device to ignite the imagination.As someone who finds it hard not to finish a book, I was in sympathy with the Queen’s view, Once I start a book I finish it. What isn’t so long however is this week’s book, “The Uncommon Reader” by Alan Bennett, a novella in which Queen Elizabeth II herself becomes obsessed with books after she happens upon a mobile library outside Buckingham Palace. Long have been the reigns of Britain’s queens and long has been the queue to see Elizabeth II lying in state.
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