One review of the first book noted – quite astonishingly – that it was "as far from a misery memoir as it's possible to imagine".
This is far from a misery memoir, as Steinberg unfurls an extraordinary story in simple style, his uncluttered prose punctuated only by the odd detour into Somali clan culture or Ethiopian politics.
Far from being a "misery memoir", then, An Everywhere is an extended love letter to the joys of reading and a celebration of the book as a physical object.
Since the breakup, reported March 18 on USMagazine.com, Ms. Zellweger, 41, far from medicating her misery with tubs of ice cream and writing ruefully about her love life in her diary in a cramped London apartment (like Bridget Jones, one of her best-known characters), has been embracing the singleton life, at least according to the tabloids.
"The movie starts to feel like some Buddhist exercise in deliberately inflicted tedium," according to Slate's Dana Stevens, who's been far from alone in her misery.
There is nothing quite as satisfying as sitting in a comfortable chair savoring someone else's misery far from home.
And there, far from the open-ended miseries of Paris, I am surrounded by these beautiful stories with their comforting endings.
I have seen too often the misery that being far from home, sometimes destitute and often feeling helpless can cause.
Even while waters recede in some parts of the north-west, it is far from clear that the country's misery is over.
The notion that the aftereffects of violence can ripple through the world, sowing misery and chaos far from the actual source, is potent and sadly pertinent.
