More Baths, Less Talking

I've read a good bit of Nick Hornby, but I have to say that my favorite Nick Hornby books are these, the books composed of essays he has written for The Believer. Hornby has compiled several books now that are composed entirely of essays about the books Hornby is reading.

Oddly, I haven't read much of what Hornby reads and I'm not inspired to go out and buy the books he reads, but (who knows why?) I'm terribly intrigued at reading about Hornby's reading. Lots of biographies and classics and histories.

Books about musicians and soccer players and politicians. I don't read any of that. Almost never. But I still love reading about the books he has read and attempted to read and (even) given up on. Mysterious.