Grit lit ...

... Reading Exercise. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It's one thing for an author to write about the transformative experience of reading a particular novel. It's quite another matter to take on a reference work that is typically turned to only in moments of ignorance or a Scrabble kerfuffle. Of late, a number of writers have published their accounts of soldiering through the kind of compendium that the average person would not want to read, let alone drop on his foot. Call it grit-lit

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