An Architect's House of Reading

A friend of my parents', an architect named David Handlin, decided to read 100 great American novels in his retirement. He wrote about the project and published a list of the books he read on The American Scholar, and talked about my dad in the introduction to his list. I loved how he ported his experience as an architect into his description of what he think makes for a good book. Here it is: In my professional life I am always thinking about quality. If that is true with architecture, why