SCAM artist alert

If anyone by the name "Luigi Calloway" (or other name) contacts you about the Mount TBR challenge (or any other challenge on this blog) requesting money for participation, then please know that there will NEVER be a reason for anyone to have to pay for participation in any way for any of my challenges. This person does NOT represent me or anything associated with my blog. I DO NOT endorse anything that he claims. A message to Luigi: Please cease and desist contacting authors (or anyone) in my name or claiming to represent my reading challenge/s. You absolutely DO NOT.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Skewering the Publishing Industry

Having finished the Albom book, I rummaged through my "waiting to be read" piles (yes, piles with an "s") and decided on Foul Matter by Martha Grimes. The back of the book promises an "evil-minded satire of the venal, not to say murderous, practices of the New York publishing industry." That seemed just the thing for a gloomy, rainy end of the weekend. It will be interesting to see what I think of this book by Grimes. The last one I tried that did not feature Richard Jury (The End of the Pier) left me sadly disappointed. I much preferred her treatment of England to that particular American foray. Starting with an open mind....

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