Books The Oprah Book Club has contentiously run roughshod through literary circles, imbalancing the book trade has her finger of instant success points seemingly randomly through all in sundry. A similar effort, if of a slightly smaller scale is currently going on at Amazon. Kent Braithwaite, mystery writer has written some 326 book reviews and managed to mention that he has a book coming out in almost every one. The manitude of his endevour hasn't been lost on Newsweek, who highlight that in some ways this is a kind of surreptitious, fragmented biography -- or weblog I suppose. [via I Love Everything]

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