Continuing Education

It's really too bad this book is out of print! If you are looking for a book on bibliophilia this is the one for you. The tone is light but the commentary is extremely meaningful. It is always enlightening to be privy to the reading lists of others, but Pickering's choices and rejections, with defenses and objections, are more germane to those of us with a literary bent than most. It is personal without being confessional, and intellectual without being political. It is an excellent starting point for building one's own serious, yet non-pretentious reading list.