he's soooo right

I'm into month two of Jacobs' saga -- I'm not sure how much of the progress is due to thoroughly enjoying the book and how much to some latent desire to finish before Christmas morning in order to justify having needed to purchase the book for myself instead of registering it with my dad as a holiday wish.

Anyway.

I've discovered a book to be recommended right alongside Christopher Moore's LAMB, and another favorite author. (I'm already raring to dive into THE KNOW-IT-ALL, Jacobs' encyclopedia project.) And I want a day job writing for Esquire the way I wanted to be a Jesuit priest when I started reading James Martin, SJ. But most importantly, I found a gorgeous and pristine three line distillation of my own undergraduate experience:

"I'm poring over religious study books, desperately trying to get a handle on this topic and every other. My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads."