Description from Goodreads
Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again.A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill's eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years. Howard's End is on the Landing charts the journey of one of the nation's most accomplished authors as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.
My Thoughts on the Book
Based on the subtitle of the book, "A Year of Reading from Home", I more or less expected the book to talk a lot about her year of reading, the books she read, and her thoughts/discoveries during the process, but I felt that was very much lacking. While it was fun "tagging along" as she talked about various bookshelves in different rooms and such, and the memories linked to said books, it became a bit repetitive with the "I met X author at Y" or whatever.
I'm not necessarily saying the book was bad, but it didn't meet my expectations, or at the very least, what I thought the book was about, if you know what I mean.
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