BOOK REVIEW
“Wear Your Invisible Crown” would hereby like
to reinstate the Book Review section. (Tada! Did that sound pompous enough?) Although we’ve covered Motion Picture and
Indie films in the past couple of months (Mona
Lisa Smile and The Giant Mechanical
Man), we haven’t cracked open a book on our blog since October (when we
discussed Libba Bray’s Beauty Pageants.
Please click on the label below to read that column). The book that we are
featuring this month is the #1 New York Times Bestseller Little Bee.
The
back cover of Little Bee proudly asserts “Once you have read this book, you’ll
want to tell your friends about it. When you do, please don’t tell them what
happens. The magic is in how the story unfolds.” When I initially read this, I scoffed the
cynic’s scoff. Will Little Bee really
be the kind of book that elicits Twi-hard mania in me? Will it be the type of
novel that is so emotionally acute that I’m suddenly inspired to start my own version
of Oprah’s Book Club? Will I blog about it?
Yes,
yes, and yes. If Chris Cleave, the author of this novel, hires me as part of his
Publicity Staff, then he’ll see an astronomical rise in sales.