'For the Love of Books' by Graham Tarrant

For the Love of Books, Graham Tarrant (3.0)

I found a lot of interesting facts about writers and books in this book, which is written as a series of chapters summarizing the history of many book genres. Surprisingly Edgar Allen Poe was considered to be the first to write about a gentleman detective in short stories such as ‘Murders at the Rue Morgue’. Arthur Conan Doyle purportedly was inspired by Poe’s Monsieur A. Dupin for Sherlock Holmes. While I enjoyed many of the points, I eventually found it too UK centric and a bit scattered with regards to the writing. Kind of ironic that a book about books is not written as well as one would like.