“But what about when someone presses a book on you, assuring you that you’ll simply adore it … and you don’t? Worse – you hate the thing, and can’t understand how anyone would think of it and then think of you.”
The Guardian on what to do “when book recommendations go wrong.” What’s the worst book recommendation you ever got?
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