In true Donoghue fashion an innocent booktag was turned into a caustic rant about society, fame, and politics! (And I loved every minute of it and agreed with every word.) Preach brother Steve, Preach!
I was hoping you would do this tag. I thought your answer for number 6 "The ONE non-fiction book that defines the decade, ..." was going to be "So you have been publicly shamed" by Jon Ronson. Also, in regards to celebrity books/memoir, I remember you once recommending quite some time ago "Nevertheless" by Alec Baldwin. Has this book held up in your eyes as time has passed? In other words would you still recommend it?
Gardening!? Weren't you learning stuff about gardening [from a book]? And what happened to that? Plus, I think the question could mean learning in the wider sense of acquiring knowledge by reading History, Travel, Science, etc.