Playing Catch Up

I’ve emerged after a brief hiatus from the wilds of Coastal Mississippi. There was no free wi-fi to be found in my limited search. To be fair, the area has been wiped clear of pretty much everything, so limited wi-fi should not have been a big surprise.

Accordingly, the blog has been more or less on auto-pilot since Wednesday afternoon with only a few small blips along the way. (The proper formatting to Part 3 of my interview with Steven Hall has been addressed. If you missed the interview last week, please take time out to check out Parts 1, 2, and 3.) Meanwhile, the in-box has become chock full of word of upcoming events, blog worthy news, reviews-in-progress, and other “must read” items. Hopefully, we’ll be caught up in a few days or so. Let’s start with this:

A recurring theme here has been shout-outs to the book stores we love. Usually these are stores that we stumble across in our travels. My mother was traveling abroad recently, and she e-mailed the picture below, which was taken at a book store in Turkey. The country. The first thing that I noticed was the Irvine Welsh book with the banana on the cover. Very cool. On the other end of the same shelf are chick-lit author Marian Keys and mass-market guy James Patterson. This is not remotely alphabetical.   What possible organizing principle could be at work here?