Best Music Writing 2008 Book

I told my brother this week, "I'm pretty sure I have no use for, and no interest in, music reviews and/or criticism."
As a musician, writer, and voracious reader he recommended this series.
So I gave it a try, with high hopes.

Yuck! I have no use for it.
I'm so not the target audience that I won't give it a star rating.

I think I'd be interested to read about musicians I already love; interviews, biography and such... but that's it. And I could potentially enjoy it via film, with audio clips and such?

It feels similar to how learning too much music theory in my college conservatory of music started to ruin my love affair and "spiritual" / religious relationship with music. I went about unlearning my ear training so I could again listen to (and play) music without thinking "that's a perfect fifth, that's a minor seventh, that's a deceptive cadence, blah blah blah."
I wanted the music, but not the "math." I didn't need the intensive math to be a good player, and the rigorous training had actively hampered my listening enjoyment. (I didn't dislike music theory until I got way too much of it. An invisible line was crossed.)

Music will continue to be my religion, but apparently I will continue to not enjoy the analysis of it.