Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere by Lauren Leto
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I enjoy a book about readers and reading: we are, after all, an interesting group. This set of essays has a little bit of everything: humor, judgments, observations. It's at its most entertaining when it's a memoir (and she's not fond of memoirs!) and less so when she delves into writers. The same names keep popping up, probably because these were blog posts originally. With a few weeks separating them, the repetition would not be bothersome but in a book it becomes irritating. Overall a fun read which will make you think about your own reading. And her chapter on Infinite Jest is worth the purchase!

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