Bookish: Breaking Thru (8#) -

From The Go-Gos to
The Chocos, will Qaeda Al Headroom
hijack control over all your reading?

What does it take these days to become a celebrity? The gate-crashing couple who trumped White House security, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, are getting their own celebrity hagiography written up by Diane Dimond.

# Speaking of celebrities, were you a fan of the girl rock group The Go-Gos? Christa, who adored Belinda Carlisle in the group's heyday, caught up with Carlisle's memoir Lips Unsealed recently. She reviews the book at Minn Reads.

# Has Larsson's Millenium completely eclipsed Abba?

"Foreign readers are finding Larsson’s
vision of Sweden unsettling and unfamiliar."

# The lingering mystery of silk trader
Jim Thompson's disappearance, noted by Steve Powell.

# The recent debut of luxury edition
newspapers is reported by Greg Beato.

# A batch of Friday's Forgotten
Mystery and Crime Books for your perusal.

# Something to think about: "If e-books come to dominate literary culture... then three massive companies will have complete and arbitrary control over the world’s information: Apple, Amazon, and Google."

# What is Chocolate Baron Anthony Ward up to?

"Ward is betting that chocolate makers like Lindt & Sprüngli or Kraft will soon have no choice but to order from him at higher prices, especially now that the Christmas business is around the corner."

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