Its a celebration of books and bookstore reading. You really know how to endear yourself to us. Of course michaels own fondness for books dates back to his childhood and he is a gracious reader as a kid and perceived his interest all the way through graduate school earning a doctor that and comparative literature. Instead of staying in academia he launched into what turned out to be a lifelong career as a literary journalist in the Washington Post book world session of 1978. 15 years later he wanted to surprise for criticism and stayed another ten years before leaving the paper to become a book reviewer, sas, feature writer. Hes continued to write a weekly column on books for the post. Anybody that has read his columns does how enthusiastic he is about all kinds of books, not just bestsellers. And what a mac he has for making others want to read those books. Hes offered a few previous books of his own including a memoir and a study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as well as the collections o