Lisa's review
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
Lisa's review
rating:
bookshelves: nonfiction-general-nature-biography, reviewed
status: Read in June, 2008
rating:
bookshelves: nonfiction-general-nature-biography, reviewed
status: Read in June, 2008
As with his The Polysyllabic Spree, the first collection of these columns, Hornby is funny and informative. Perhaps too informative as reading about these books is dangerous if one doesn’t want one’s to-read list to get too much longer. Each essay covers one month of books Hornby bought and books Hornby read.
The structure continues to be inspired but I didn’t enjoy this collection as much as the last one because he goes off in tangents and talks somewhat less about books and because, if my memory serves, his bought books and read books lists were, for the most part, shorter.
Also, he seemed less engaged in the process and I don’t think it was his humor (sometimes somewhat crass but in a forgivable British manner) but I think he really didn’t put quite as much into the essays. That said, what was there was interesting and enjoyable.
I don’t really appreciate the included long excerpts from a selection of the books he writes about because I don’t tend to enjoy r...more
The structure continues to be inspired but I didn’t enjoy this collection as much as the last one because he goes off in tangents and talks somewhat less about books and because, if my memory serves, his bought books and read books lists were, for the most part, shorter.
Also, he seemed less engaged in the process and I don’t think it was his humor (sometimes somewhat crass but in a forgivable British manner) but I think he really didn’t put quite as much into the essays. That said, what was there was interesting and enjoyable.
I don’t really appreciate the included long excerpts from a selection of the books he writes about because I don’t tend to enjoy r...more
