Thanks for that link. I have been thinking about the project of these reviews recently, what I think I am doing vs. what other people get from it, that sort of thing. There's a bit in that article about telling people what to buy vs. demonstrating a way of thinking about books which gets at some of what I have been thinking about. I am always so surprised when someone tells me they read a book because of something I said. I mean, of course they do, I do the same, but that is so entirely not on my mind when I write that it is generally a surprise. I am generally trying to snapshot some sort of reaction, with the subliminal project of validating this kind of criticism (emotional, autobiographical, deeply contextual) since it usually gets dismissed and that pisses me off. / not sober ramblings.