One for the Books - Best Selling Novel & Reading Accessories for Book Lovers - Perfect for Book Clubs, Gifts & Cozy Reading Nooks

"...I now realized that I'd had it up to here with bumbling middle-aged coppers and dysfunctional hackers and Swedish serial killers. Now that I was working my way back from the end of my life and counting the days, I didn't have time to waste on Scandinavian noir. Every minute I spent reading about Lisbeth Salander's tattoos was time I could have spent reading about Queequeg's tattoos."Joe Queenan has always been funny (and a curmudgeon), but in One for the Books, he finally puts the 'wise' in Weisenheimer. A lifelong reader, he talks very personally about books, libraries, bookstores, other readers... He is scathing about professional reviewers..."...Books are described as being 'compulsively readable' when they are merely 'okay,' 'jaw-droppingly good' when they are actually 'not bad,' 'impossible to put down' when they are really 'no worse than the last three.' Authors are described as an alchemical synthesis of Madame de Staël, Alcuin of York, and Arthur Conan Doyle, or are said to write like Charlotte Brontë on acid or to have out-Dostoyevskyed Dostoyevsky and horsewhipped Heine, when they are in fact more of a cross between Candace Bushnell and Ngaio Marsh, or write like Nora Roberts on Robitussin-DM, or have narrowly out-Scottolined Lisa Scottoline and were lucky to play Anita Shreve to a draw."... And actually has a kind word for Amazon's reviews, which I had forgotten (probably because he is not too fond of Kindles).A delightful, funny memoir which will resonate with anyone addicted to books.