Even if Book of Delights is not entirely your thing, I still love it and want to say one more thing about it to all you writers out there in Literary Land:

His sentences are pure pleasure to read, as they loop around and inside out and include parentheticals and asides and long wending sentences that are easy to follow.  In one essay, he writes about the delight of wearing a scarf a woman friend knitted for him, how he loves wearing it, how ten years ago he would never have worn such a "feminine" item of clothing, but how he now knows it doesn't take away from his big manly self to wear it.  The sentences he writes to explain this are like knitted yarn!

They are also a bit like riding down curvy roads, not knowing what will show up over the next hill and around the next bend.

In other words, the writing reflects what he's writing about and are written in longhand, not on the computer, which he says allows him to write more naturally.  (Of course somebody had to put the same words on the computer for us to read them.)

Handmade things, handwritten sentences, are among life's lovelies.