When the editors at the OUP blog asked me to write a piece about my choice for the book of 2010, I knew immediately and without question what book that was: Eric Hill’s intellectually deep and endlessly rewarding Where’s Spot?, which I have read probably 400 times over the past year with my son (those readers with children know what I’m talking about). But more considered reflection made me think that the editors probably had something else in mind, so after a bit more thought I chose Tony Judt’s collection of short memoirs, The Memory Chalet. Here’s the first paragraph Read more