Book review: "Widow" a stillborn novel for critical - Denver Post
If by some miracle, Martin Amis the critic were able to step back and coldly evaluate Martin Amis the novelist, he might say that his latest work of fiction, "The Pregnant Widow," is a Hitler's bunkerful of claustrophobic tedium, denial and failed

Book plug: The Big Short (it was stupidity, stupid!) - Salon
I wrote this as a comment on Stellaa's post, Goldman Sachs Gets A Scolding, Politicians Keep The Money , but then saw that she'd posted it Friday and that probly my comment would get lost in the spam ad section. As I'm not qualified to review this or

Book drive collects thousands of volumes. Bring yours - Edmonton Journal
A steady stream of cars filed into the Victoria Curling Club yesterday to donate books for the Times Colonist book sale, some dropping off boxes by the truckload. "I'd say turnout is fantastic -- bigger than normal," said Bruce Cousins, Times

Molly Ringwald's new book is 'Pretty' darned good - Deseret News
"Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick" (HarperCollins, 229 pages, $25.99), by Molly Ringwald: Molly Ringwald has a new book out? And it has the word "pretty" in the title? It has to be a tell-all about the

Three-Alarm fire consumes Portland book store - NWCN
PORTLAND - A three-alarm fire destroyed the Great Northwest Bookstore at 3314 SW 1st Avenue Sunday afternoon. The fire, which is being investigated, broke out around 2 p.m. The billowing plumes of smoke could be seen for miles. The book store is

Sadie Frost - Frost's Book Won't 'Lift The Lid' On Law - Contactmusic.com
SADIE FROST has dismissed rumours her upcoming autobiography will tell all about her marriage to Hollywood star JUDE LAW. The British actor was said to have been fuming over Frost's plans to "lift the lid" on their union and their subsequent split in

Book Review - American Reporter
GILROY, Calif. -- St. Paul, in a letter to the Corinthians, suggests that stories have at least two layers of meaning, whose understanding depends on not only the intent of the raconteur but also the cognitive faculties of the intended audience. In

Nazi Oaks Book Review - Canada Free Press
It is odd, really more like eerie, how similar many of the fetishes of dead totalitarian systems of the last century are to the curiosities of modern leftism. The Nazi war on tobacco, for example, mirrors modern jihads against smoking, which

FROST'S BOOK WON'T 'LIFT THE LID' ON LAW - PR Inside
SADIE FROST has dismissed rumours her upcoming autobiography will tell al l about her marriage to Hollywood star JUDE LAW. The British actor was said to have been fuming over Frost's plans to "l ift the lid" on their union and their subsequent split

For Rosalynn Carter, four-decade fight for better - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The former first lady details that 1966 meeting and her work since in a new book, "Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis." It is Mrs. Carter's fifth book and her second dealing with mental health. Mrs. Carter, 82, says that while there