Comments on: What to Read at Work http://blog.booklistonline.com/2010/01/26/what-to-read-at-work/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Keir Graff http://blog.booklistonline.com/2010/01/26/what-to-read-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-413915 Keir Graff Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:38:16 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=3912#comment-413915 I haven’t read the cumbersomely titled Then We Came to the End. But it seems like something I’d enjoy. I’m reading a book right now called Holy Water, by James P. Othmer, that has some pretty wicked send-ups of corporate culture. I can see what Lichtig means, that it could be disorienting (or what the British so charmingly call “disorientating”) to look up from your book about a dysfunctional office environment and realize that you work in a dysfunctional office environment. Not that that applies to me. But I probably won’t tempt fate by reading any books about book-review journals….

]]> By: Joel Reese http://blog.booklistonline.com/2010/01/26/what-to-read-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-413913 Joel Reese Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:57:11 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=3912#comment-413913 A few thoughts:

1) I try to keep it somewhat light — reading “Babbitt” whilst ensconced at my desk would crush my soul.

2) I’ll often keep it somewhat work-related. Some people like to totally escape work. I think the switch from work to non-work back to work might be too jarring.

3) That “Then We Came to the End” looks like an fun read. Is it?

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