Read All About It: My year of falling in love with literature again

Having amassed more books than he’ll ever be able to read in his lifetime, Paul Cuddihy decided at the start of 2013 that he would actually start reading some of them. He had fallen out of the habit of reading – though not of book buying – and he wanted to change that. So throughout 2013 he made a conscious decision to switch off his television set and go and do something less boring instead – read a book. ‘Read All About It’ charts Paul’s year of reading and what else was happening in his life and in the literary world. ‘I have never been able to resist a book about books.’ (Anne Fadiman)