I love this book, and it’s clearly a “quick read” – normally it would be an afternoon or two of dedicated reading. The chapters have little snippets of history in them, but mainly they stay light and friendly. It’s making me feel very happy to be in Chicago, for the most part.

But it’s taking a loooong time to read it, because these days I do almost all my reading on the CTA, and I don’t want to carry this book around with me. My boss lent it to me, and it’s an autographed copy. So I have to be veerrrryyy careful, and just read it in quick 15-minute sessions at home.

(All Consuming says that I started consuming this item less than a minute before writing this post, but that’s just when I clicked on it. I actually started reading it weeks ago.)