Fusenews: The One Flaw with Summer? Mushy Apple Season.

ooo!  Most loathed books from the critics at The Times!  Makes me think of my own beloved/despised list.  I mean, there’s the Triumvirate of Mediocrity , of course. They’ll always have the sweetest place in my heart (particularly after I read Laura Lutz’s Reason #2  the other day). Thanks to bookshelves of doom for the link. 

I never read as many adult books as I should.  Usually this reading is confined to bedtime or audio books.  For example, right now I’m enjoying a spirited Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (who, as an aside, went to Tulane with my mother-in-law and father-in-law) all thanks to Audible.  Now Kelly Herold and Monica Edinger have discovered that children’s books released in Britain will appear at Audible before they are published.  As a result they have both already heard Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce (he of " YA ghetto " fame).  I want this book.  No no.  You do not understand.  I waaaaant this book.  But I’m loathe to stop listening to Toole, so if the publisher who is bringing this book to America could be so good as to speed up the whole publishing process I’d be mighty obliged (you can’t blame a gal for trying, right?). 

No! No no no no no!  No, Elizabeth Ward, no you are not allowed to leave The Washington Post .  I understand that you have your reasons.  Perhaps they are very good reasons.  I do not care.  Elizabeth Ward you are hereby commanded to turn around and come back THIS INSTANT!  Please?  Sad thanks to Big A little a for the link.