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Laurie Hertzel

Laurie Hertzel: Is owning a lot of books a mark of middle-class smugness?

A columnist for the Guardian suggests it is, and she is getting rid of her own books.

Sometimes when I read an opinion piece I wonder how sincerely the writer believes what they wrote, and how much of it was written to provoke.

I wondered this the other morning after reading an opinion piece in the Guardian of London by a writer named Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett. (You can find the column at http://bit.ly/3HswK0F) I wasn't familiar with her, but Google tells me she is the author of a novel called "The Tyranny of Lost Things" as well as a memoir about her cat.

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