The Content Reader

I have just joined a "Borrow and Read" circle at my local bookshop. You pay 40€ and you can borrow and read 55 books. Most of them are newly published books within fiction and crime novels. Since I seldom read very new books, I am happy to have this possibility instead of buying them. The concept is; you borrow one book at the time, you can keep it as long as you like, the last book you borrow you can keep. Not a bad deal. The first book I choose was Meet Me at the Museum  by Anne Youngson. A new writer to me, and it seems it is her first novel. It is a 'letter novel' and the correspondence takes place between a Danish man working at a museum in Denmark, and an English woman living on a farm in East Anglia. It starts with a preface to a book about the Tollund Man, written by a professor Glob. At the time he dedicated the book to a group of school girls who were interested in the find. Fifty years later Tina Hopgood writes a letter to him. She is looking back t...