- Tuesday was a great day for nonfiction book releases. Bob Woodward is all over the place promoting The War Within, including 60 Minutes and Fresh Air. Thomas Friedman also has a new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which is already #1 on Amazon’s bestsellers list. Booklist gives it a glowing review. Friedman appeared on Charlie Rose, and Amazon features a conversation between Friedman and my true love, Fareed Zakaria. Oh, did I mention Bob Schieffer also has a new book out? It’s called Bob Schieffer’s America.
- Annie Proulx is back with Fine Just the Way It Is, a collection of short stories. The New York Times writes that Proulx’s “sense of story is admirable, her sentences are artful, and she writes like a demon.” USA Today calls Proulx “one of the best short-story writers working today.”
- The Times and USA Today also both feature Helene Cooper’s memoir The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood. The Times uses words like “mesmerizing” and “captivating” to describe the account of Cooper’s journey back to Liberia.
- I keep running into The 39 Clues, described as a “multimedia, interactive adventureseries” that includes cards, books, games, and prizes. USA Today thinks the first book, The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan, is “full of promise.”
- According to Variety, Tom Cruise is going to make a movie version of Douglas Preston’s The Monster of Florence. I hope he plays the monster because Cruise terrifies me. By the way, Booklist really likes the novel’s audio version.
- Finally, the blog Pop Candy features “Twenty-five great high-school books.” I’m not sold on the list, but I will say that I did learn how to spell the word separate correctly when I read John Knowles’s A Separate Peace in high school.
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