A review by mastben11
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

4.0

At times thoroughly delightful, but the ceaseless gimmick of the whole thing relies on the reader's attention. When that waned for me or when I lacked the mental space to return to the narrator's voice, the book became an exercise in drudgery. The penultimate chapter helped me reconcile these differences, observing attention as an act of meditation and finding wonder in the arbitrariness of CVS layouts or the act of rubbing sock on carpet.