I love it when you read books I am planning to read, because you always pick out the things that are going to hit me wrong, and then I am forewarned! I've read the first chapter or so of If on a winter's night a traveler, and liked it immensely, but I'm definitely having to read it through a White Dude lens. (On another note, have you read Invisible Cities? I don't know if it's actually better than If on a winter's night a traveler, or just that it has a less cohesive theory, or even simply that it's about cities rather than reading, but I am absolutely loving it.)