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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>What interests Hornby? Songs, songwriters, everything, compulsively, passionately. Here is his ultimate list of 31 all-time favorite songs. And here are his smart, funny, personal essays about them, written with the love and care of a perfectly mastered mixed tape.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><p><b>"All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do." --Nick Hornby, from </b><i>Songbook </i><br><b> <br>A wise and hilarious collection from the bestselling author of <i>Just Like You, </i> <i>Funny Girl, About a Boy</i>, and <i>High Fidelity. </i> </b></p></b><p>Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin...</p><p><i>Songbook </i>is Nick Hornby's labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it's good, what makes us listen and love it, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives--all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>That whole subculture, all those mournful guys to whom the sound of record-store bin dividers clicking by is almost music enough, should love <b>Songbook</b>, yet so should anyone interested in great essays, or in the delicate art of being funny, or in how to write about one's feelings in such a way that other people will actually care.--<b>The San Francisco Chronicle</b><p>Delivered in a hugely enjoyable, invisible prose that does in words what Hornby's tunesmiths do with sound. He writes good.--<b>Time Out London</b></p><p>Quintessentially Hornby: an idiosyncratic and charming exploration of the meaning of music and how it changes as we grow up and grow old.--<b>SeattleWeekly.com</b></p><p>A book about the joy of listening to great pop songs, about the elusive genius of a catchy chorus...what shines most is Hornby himself--his wry self-awareness, his disarming honesty. Effortlessly readable, every chapter reminds us how special an observer of human behavior Hornby is--<b>Heat</b></p><p>"A small, singular, delightful collection [about] the power of songs to bind people culturally and to reach deeply into the human spirit, bending the heart into new shapes with new potential."--<b>The New York Times Book Review</b></p><p>When Hornby writes about his enthusiasms and how they intertwine with his life, he's amusing and inspiring.--<b>Rolling Stone</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>NICK HORNBY is the author of the internationally bestselling novels <i>High Fidelity, About a Boy, A Long Way Down, Slam, </i> <i>Juliet, Naked, </i> and <i>Funny Girl</i>, as well as several works of nonfiction<i>.</i> He lives in London.

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