Reading for work or pleasure?

This intriguing review by Charles Bock in the New York Times, of John D’Agata’s About a Mountain, sent me straight to my reading list. The core subject of the book is Yucca Mountain, of great interest to me. But is this work (I’m writing a book on nuclear power) or pleasure? Bock’s review suggests D’Agata’s book is a freewheeling discourse using Yucca as something of a device. Right – make it personal not work.