I am a miscellany nerd, so this book was right up my alley. This is one of those interests that if you know, you know. If you don't know, this book isn't for you.

I'm a big fan of Dwight Garner's reviews in the New York Times Book Review (although I don't know if I'll ever be able to get over him giving "Trust Exercise" a rave), and I've always especially enjoyed the way he brings fun quotes or literary anecdotes into his reviews. "Garner's Quotations" is a handbook of these quotes, which Garner has been recording in his commonplace book for nearly four decades. This is a catalogue-style book, not one that you really "read," but I enjoyed browsing several pages each night in bed, highlighting gems like "Fox News did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us" (Ryan Scott); "Lead us not into Penn Station" (from Saul Bellow's "Herzog") and Clive James' description of Arnold Schwarzenegger as "a brown condom full of walnuts." The book is full of so many fantastic quotes that it really is a disservice to cite just three here--read it and enjoy the rest!

Thank you to NetGalley and Farrar, Straus and Giroux for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review.