That old time linking thing

Is it weird that I’m actually happy to be back at work? Maybe because by the time the fireworks rolled around, I just wanted to get the hell home. Or maybe it’s the run of mediocre books I’ve been reading lately (let’s just say that it’s no fun to read the latest book by a formerly favorite author who you can tell is either itching to do something else, or at least is writing something where his heart is obviously not in it.) But in any case, back to work and back to blogging:

Well, now that Bob Woodward’s book on DEEP THROAT is out, the Washington Post (which was scooped about the ID and pretty much everything else lately) has an insanely long piece about the book, its implications, and whatever else Bob Thompson wants to mention.

The Sun-Sentinel’s Sherri Winston gushes over her memories of Nancy Drew, old and new, with a little nod to La Evanovich as well.

The Alamogordo Daily News features Tony Hillerman in an extremely extensive interview — this is only part one, after all…

Looks like Random House UK and WHSmith are getting a rather nasty divorce. That’s what happens when publishers and distributors spend all their time fighting…

David Dun started writing as a way to pass time because he was up late, but as he tells the Eureka Times-Standard, it soon became an obsession — and a market-driven exercise.

The Caine Prize for best writing by an African writers has gone to Segun Afolabi. He gets a cool 15,000 pounds for winning. Nice.

Need a book fix as you watch the Tour de France? Matt Seaton offers the top ten cycling-related reads.

If Nancy Pearl’s BOOK LUST wasn’t enough for you, now she’s back with the follow up — and Andi Shechter, writing for January Magazine, is thrilled by this new volume.

Dear Ann Midgette: if you’re going to devote an entire piece to Blair Tindall’s sex-drenched memoir of her classical music days, shouldn’t you read the book first? Then again, shouldn’t I before I comment on the comment? Oh, my brain…need more coffee…

And finally, now that Canada’s favorite blonde psychopath is out of jail, will books about her start to sell like hotcakes? Survey says, I sure do think so….