This book is not one that your read in one sitting, from cover to cover.
It is a book to leaf through, to read, put away, read a bit again and then say I'm done with it.

I've done that. The introduction is interesting and gives a good idea of how and why the expressions were collected and what the criteria were to include them in this book or not.
I think I might just send the author (like he requested) one or two of the 'home language' expressions we use, for the next book that will be issued. Maybe they'll be used :-)
It is a nice book. I've seen interesting expressions, new ones, ones I know and even one we use too. I won't even try to translate, because that would get me nowhere. Wouldn't be funny and would completely miss the point.

But, if you like languages and there's a book like this for your language, I recommend you leaf through it. You never know what you find :-) ( )