The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker — Rachel’s review of this book prompted me to head to the library to find it asap. And I loved it. An anthologist for a poetry collection hems and haws his way through not writing the book’s introduction. In the meantime, he explains everything he knows about poems (or plums, as he calls some of them). A good book for poetry lovers!
A Broom of One’s Own by Nancy Peacock — I was expecting this to be more about writing and less about her life as a housekeeper, but it is the opposite. It reads like a memoir of her life as a house cleaner (after having two published novels!!!) with a few writing tips thrown in. Still it’s a good and funny book. And it reads quick.