But the bulk of the story concerns Baddiel's discovery of his mother's 20-year-affair with a fellow collector of golf memorabilia and the realisation, in reading her erotic verse, that she was "Dollis Hill's very own Erica Jong".
But it was only in the course of a first-class Girls Aloud interview that the realisation finally hit home: reading Q somehow seemed to have become an enjoyable experience.
As I kept reading, a realisation dawned: the non-excitingness of Boice's book – from its title to his step-by-step advice, which you're meant to implement gradually, over months – is itself an exercise in cultivating patience.
We are never quite sure, which is the novel's point; its exquisite and delicate prose contrasts with the rawness and violence of its action, its striking originality with our realisation that we're reading one of the oldest stories in the world.
That possibility occurred to me when reading of Casement's realisation of his political ineptitude.
I love reading (wait, that's not the realisation).
But reading through, I've come to the realisation that the ending has to change - that it's not strong enough as it is.
When reading becomes silent, however, the role and realisation of information structure becomes unclear.
And anyone reading Mr Atkinson's thoughtful books will come to the realisation that soldiers are fated, like Sisyphus, to relive the same events again and again.
The realisation of information structure differs in the different modes of speaking and reading as a result of the different physiological processes involved.
