RE: Labour of Love - Sam Leith's "THe Haunted Wood"

Sounds like a formal literature review without it being about peer reviewed literature in an academic context - though, to be sure; each and every one of the stories mentioned in this book likely has its own literature reviews in that context.

Reading as a writer is so fundamentally important. That is to say, reading with a more critical slant - "Why is this good?", "Why was this word chosen?" And other such questions.