Housekeeping vs. the Dirt

Delightful essays about books and reading and readers.

I picked this up for two key reasons: a) I just bought the latest collection, More Baths and Less Talking, and wanted to get to it but hadn't read any of the others except the first, and my sense of chronology demanded senselessly that I go through them in order; and b) I wanted to get to 100 books read this year and this book would very quickly add another in the ‘done' column. For some reason I didn‰ЫЄt really dig this one as much as his first, although there were plenty of good columns here. More books that I‰ЫЄve actually read than usual. And the preface is great.