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|title=Stuff I've Been Reading

|author=Nick Hornby

|publisher=Viking

|date=November 2013

|summary=Needing reading inspiration? Let Nick Hornby point you in the right direction of some obscure gems in this highly entertaining collection of reviews from US literary magazine ''The Believer''.

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I am lucky enough to be typing this while sitting on the fifth floor of the magnificent new Library of Birmingham. Coming in at a whopping £189 million the burghers of the second city certainly haven't skimped in trying to create a 21st century centre of learning. Amongst all the interactive learning zones, digital galleries and coffee shops there are of course books. Many, many books. Over one million in fact. And this in an era when some critics have said that the book in its current form is dead.