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Correction:Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Rec...

2006-12-12T01:57:00.000-05:00

Correction:

Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again by Ina Garten should be credited with a VORB of 53.7, not 63.7.

I mean, can you imagine? 63.7? For Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again by Ina Garten?!?!

Best Books of 2006, by VORB:Suite Française, Irene...

2006-12-12T01:51:00.000-05:00

Best Books of 2006, by VORB:

Suite Française, Irene Nemirovsky: 76.3
The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud: 72.1
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright: 66.9
Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Adrian Goldsworthy: 59.2
Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again, Ina Garten: 63.7

Lowest, interestingly:

Judge & Jury, James Patterson: -13.3

Anyone else feel that Dana Spiotta's "Eat the Docu...

2006-12-11T23:35:00.000-05:00

Anyone else feel that Dana Spiotta's "Eat the Document" was a little too basepath-clogging?

(I have not read this book and have no idea what I'm talking about.)

2007 National Book Award Prediction:I predict that...

2006-12-11T19:19:00.000-05:00

2007 National Book Award Prediction:

I predict that this tiny, scrappy little book will absolutely sweep the floor with the bloated, expertly-written behemoth that is Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day."