In the classic welcome note of a column, a journalist called Yours Truly chats up a pen friend called Dear Reader with the wise words of a great philosopher called Anonymous and a connection is made.
I was all about keeping my thread unscripted and personal, but for the sake of tradition, Dear Reader, welcome to Storyboard, a column where Yours Truly reports, conspires, reviews and champions everything books.
I follow books more curiously than my exes’ status updates, and stalk clever writers more dutifully than an insurance salesman. You can think of this column as a fire-in-the-bones thing not a career-minded nine-to-five.
But if the only book you ever take home after work is the street-famous glue book for rats, my friend, you are probably reading the wrong column.