Random

Oh my, oh my. So funny. Be sure to watch the Tea Partay.

Speaking of New England blue bloods, Mark Mills, author of the New England set Amagansett, has a new one called the Savage Garden. He moves the action to Tuscany and throws in some medieval intrigue. I loved the first book, which reminded me of the wistful literary thrillers of Robert Goddard, the writer, not the rocket guy.

Michiko HATES the new Ian McEwan. "After two big, ambitious novels — “Atonement” and “Saturday” — Ian McEwan has inexplicably produced a small, sullen, unsatisfying story that possesses none of those earlier books’ emotional wisdom, narrative scope or lovely specificity of detail." Got-dam, that is some heavy hating.

Update: Jonathan Yardley LOVES it.