Oct
20
2009
This Week's Bestsellers
This week there was only one new book added to the list of bestsellers, so I get a well-earned (I think) and much-needed (my wife thinks) respite after having to read nine books over the previous two weeks. The new book was Madeleine Albright’s strangely-titled Read My Pins. This appears to be a kind of coffee table book that shares photos of the various pins she wore on her clothing during her years as a diplomat and the story behind each one of them. It’s rather an unlikely topic for a book, I suppose, and my only interest is in seeing whether she can sustain any kind of enjoyment through 170+ pages of pins. That seems a tall order. Unfortunately it may be a little while before I can find out whether or not she succeeds. The book is out of stock on Amazon and is not available locally in any book shop. I guess it must have been unexpectedly popular, selling out the first printing. I will provide a review as soon as I can track it down.
Yesterday I received a copy of SuperFreakonomics, the sequel to the mega-selling Freakonomics. Though it is not yet on the bestseller lists, I am going to go out on a limb and guess it will be there soon enough. I will post a review soon.