And come they did. Not quite in the same way as when I last recall being given that message. That time I was under orders to turn my room into a fort, complete with panda flag, which I duly did. They, rather unsurprisingly, came, and we all had afternoon tea. Delightful. Oh, those heady days of 2007...
Anyway, back to 2015 and one Facebook post later I've managed to generate plenty of recommendations, which is both fantastic and a pleasant surprise. Admittedly I'm not sure why it surprised me so much given that for the most part I didn't have my friends pegged as a bunch of illiterate barbarians tearing up Twitter and sodomising Snapchat, who wouldn't know a book outside of that handy object wedged under the wonky table leg.
What is even better is that so far I've had a real pick and mix selection of different genres, fiction and non-fiction, classics and contemporary, long and short, 'been meaning to read that' and 'never heard of it'. Which was exactly what I wanted, so thank you. And nobody has recommended Jeffrey Archer, so that's the icing on the cake.
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