The Polysyllabic Spree

This is another book I really struggled with, though I can't figure out precisely why. At only 140 pages, it certainly wasn't too long. Polysyllabic Spree is a collection of Nick Hornby's columns from The Believer in 2003-2004, and the vast majority of them are colorful and humorous, even if I didn't find many books to add to my reading list. (I did find three, which doesn't seem too bad - Random Family, George and Sam: Autism in the Family, and On and Off the Field, the latter of which is improbably a cricketer's biography. As in the British sport, not the insect-obsessed.) At the end of the day, perhaps it's that I'd rather read the books myself than read someone else's impressions of them. Undoubtedly there's a bit of irony in writing that sentence in a blog dedicated to my own, not-as-entertaining-as-Nick-Hornby's impressions of books.