Excerpt powerhouse Good Morning America has posted a long selection from Brent Jeffs' memoir Lost Boy. Jeffs is the nephew of Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose compound in Texas was raided in April of 2008. Lost Boy tells of his expulsion from the FLDS.I'd known … Continue reading No Man is an Island, but Some are Planets
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Wait til Nero Wolfe Hears About This
From agathachristie.com comes news of the world's thickest book: "Measuring over a foot long, with 4,032 pages, the volume contains the complete Miss Marple stories-–all 12 novels and 20 short stories." Only 500 copies were printed, so they're retailing for a pricey £1000. Details are here. Thanks to the New Yorker's Book Bench for the … Continue reading Wait til Nero Wolfe Hears About This
Stranger Than Fiction
A Greek prodigy (he was admitted to Columbia University when he was only 15) has penned a very unusual and very successful graphic novel. Apostolos Doxiadis has written Logicomix, which tells the life of Bertrand Russel, mathematician, philosopher, and Nobel Prize laureate for literature. The book has been a bestseller in Doxiadis' homeland and translations … Continue reading Stranger Than Fiction
Musings from Magers and Quinn 