Friday, May 11, 2007

Week Nineteen, Book Twenty Five

by Nick Hornby
Review:
In this latest collection of essays following The Polysyllabic Spree, critic and author Nick Hornby tackles fourteen months of massively witty adventures in reading. Printed monthly in the Believer, Hornby's book reviews are downright hysterical and his choices are unpredictable. You cannot run a thread through his genre selections and he is as adamant about the experience of reading a book as he is about the importance of the book itself. I read this book last night in two sittings, with only a one hour break to watch "Survivor" and a mini break to eat dinner. This is the third nonfiction book I have read by Hornby in the past eight months and I plan on trying out a few from his fiction collection as well. If you love reading book reviews and are looking for book suggestions, look no further and dive into this book.