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A review by morainjay
Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel
informative
reflective
slow-paced
2.75
This book is full of lots of interesting facts about crosswords and I enjoyed reading it on my bus commute to and from work.
Where I found frustrations: After a few chapters the organization started to bother me. It felt like a chapter could stand alone, but then put into the book as a whole it didn't seem to flow as well. There were a lot of instances where a person, etc. was described extensively every time they were mentioned, which is repetitive - I was told once, I don't need to be told again. There was also a lot of superfluous pieces of trivia that did not relate to crosswords enough for me to understand why it was mentioned.
Where I found frustrations: After a few chapters the organization started to bother me. It felt like a chapter could stand alone, but then put into the book as a whole it didn't seem to flow as well. There were a lot of instances where a person, etc. was described extensively every time they were mentioned, which is repetitive - I was told once, I don't need to be told again. There was also a lot of superfluous pieces of trivia that did not relate to crosswords enough for me to understand why it was mentioned.