A more serious book than you might guess from the somewhat flippant title. Maureen Corrigan writes about her rewarding career reviewing books and teaching literature, her love of different book genres (particularly detective stories) and her ambivalence about her experience in getting a PhD in English Lit. A very open, honest examination of everything she reads and does - it can't be easy to write a memoir that's as blunt in self-assessment as this.
Interesting side note for medical artists: she had a part time job at the Mutter Museum of medical curiosities in Philadelphia.
Books she wrote about that I now want to read: Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim" (the funniest book she's ever read); mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers.
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