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# Tuesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/32485/
- Published: 2014-04-29T07:42:20.000Z
- Updated: 2014-04-29T07:42:20.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/On-Lying-in-Bed-189x300.jpg "On Lying in Bed")

Although I haven't read all of it, I've frequently dipped into Alberto Manguel's splendid *A History of Reading*. Manguel was once referred to as the "Casanova of reading," which makes him a nerd *par excellence* . . . and a man I'd like to meet.

But I never knew he liked Chesterton, until I heard Dale Ahlquist recommend (on his EWTN series) *On Lying in Bed & Other Essays* and flash a picture of an edition edited by Manguel. I was watching the TV and kind of perked up and said to myself, "Did that say 'Alberto Manguel'? The same Manguel who wrote the *History*?"

It did and it is.

Consider it yet another feather in GKC's cap that a man of Manguel's reading depth enjoys him. I don't think it'll land GKC closer to canonization (though Manguel is from Argentina), but still a nice feather.