I'd Rather Be Reading

It's okay for most of the people in my country to devote hours and hours of their lives to watch other people play sports. This is widely accepted, especially in my part of Texas.

Accept it, then, that is okay for big readers to spend many hours of their lives reading about...books. Yes, books. It's the genre I call books-about-books. For obsessive readers like me, it can be one of our favorite genres.

Anne Bogel is one of my tribe, a fellow obsessive reader, and a fellow blogger. This slim book is a collection of pieces I wish I'd written myself. I find myself nodding as I read along through the chapters—-Confess Your Literary Sins, The Books That Find You, How to Organize Your Bookshelves, The Readers I Have Been, Book Twins, and, of course, the mantra for obsessive readers, I'd Rather Be Reading.

A perfect book for the start of my new reading year.