In the Book Review: Words in Air
Running around doing errands yesterday, I managed to lose the Book Review somewhere. Once upon a time, this would have been a catastrophe, but, for some time now, I’ve been working from the newspaper’s online site, not from the print edition. There were a few reviews that I hadn’t read before I sat down to work, but I found that I rather liked reading them online. On top of everything else, the Book Review is not the best-printed publication in the world.
Having played around in recent weeks with new classification systems, with cute (and ugly) color-coding, I found myself absolutely unwilling, yesterday, to continue such nonsense. That’s the scary part — all that categorization seemed foolish and unnecessary. It might be a sign that I’m about to stop reviewing the Book Review.