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 | From Megan Romer, your About Books & Literature Editor It's been a busy week in books, full of glory, scandals, and a little bit of big-screen glamour. It must be Spring! | |
Jennifer Egan's 'A Visit From the Goon Squad'
The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced last week, and Jennifer Egan's outstanding and wholly entertaining A Visit From the Goon Squad won her the honor. Haven't read it yet? Get to it!
| 'Three Cups of Tea' -- A Fraud?
The television show 60 Minutes did an expose that showed that the wildly popular memoir Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson, might not be the whole truth. Worse? The charity he founded, to which people have been inspired to donate en masse since this book became a bestseller, may have squandered funds. Oy.
| 'Water For Elephants' Movie Review
Water For Elephants splashed onto the silver screen this week, starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. Is is worth a book-lover's time?
| Is There a Book in the House?
And the results of a important study came out this week. It says, to paraphrase, that the very act of keeping books in the home statistically increases the level of education that your children will attain. Even as few as twenty books leads to a much higher likelihood that your children will attend college. What this means for my family is, of course, that my kid is going to hold roughly 450 graduate-level degrees. Presuming, of course, that he is not killed by a falling stack of books before the time comes.
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