Elsewhere

Verbivore has good things to say about Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (a book, I humbly posit, there can be nothing but good things to say about), and Isabella has stoked my interest in the new Salman Rushdie book, The Enchantress of Florence (after I took a big fat pass on the clown book), while Scott suggests that Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao isn't really Pulitzer material (a statement I find perplexing even as I try to justify my relative lack of interest in reading the book after having read Drown last year), as Callie comes up for air (by stepping back into the waters) (how they do churn) (and churn) (and splash).