Quick Browse & Brief Note -

Is there life after Harry Potter?

Theo Tait reviews The Casual Vacancy
by JK Rowling at The Guardian.

# Raffaele Sollecito publishes a memoir
about his adventures with Amanda Knox.
Honor Bound written with Andrew Gumbel.

# Why is the Arab world so easily
offended? By Fouad Ajami at WaPo.

:::: I was in transit last weekend and caught a terrible cold - the first in many years without one. Then, this past week, things around me became rather turbulent. I'm hoping the situation will settle down next week.

Meanwhile, hang in there!

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