Although this book was published over ten years ago, it is still worth reading.

I am pretty sure that all this binge-watching and doom scrolling reduces the number of active brain cells.

Because Hensher has read so many novels, the reader feels in safe hands.

The funny thing about reading the first few pages of a book is that the outcome can sometimes be the opposite of what you’d expect.

This is a collection of essays or meditations on looking and seeing or, fundamentally, visibility.

A strange sort of book, this. A mixture, it seems to me, of fiction and autobiography.

I have enjoyed reading the C Comics, especially the mock advertisements and the parodies of famous comic book characters like Nancy, Archie and Veronica.

I am not familiar with Irish myths and tales, so this beautiful collection of stories is quite an eye-opener.

Before I read a book properly, especially if it has only just arrived, I like to get its measure. I look it up and down. Are its shoes polished?

. I recently asked three AI programs to review my latest book, which is called The Reconstructed Muse: AI and the Renaissance of Literature.

I’ve been reading Phillipa K. Chong’s “Inside the Critics’ Circle”, in which she attempts to discover the process by which books get reviewed. It’s a very interesting read. I haven’t finished it yet, so am not in a position to review it as such, but I was struck by the extract cited here.