March 10, 2003
HOW DID THEY OVERLOOK ORRIN? (via Arts and Letters Daily):
America's Biggest Readers (Book Magazine, March/April 2003)
Harriet Klausner . . . can plow through a book in just an hour or two - and she typically reads two or three a day - so when she worked at a Pennsylvania library in the '70s, she started writing brief reviews of all the new books for the library's newsletter. The habit stuck, and she's been writing brief book reviews ever since. A few years ago, Amazon.com started allowing people to submit reviews to the site, and suddenly Klausner found herself labeled the No. 1 reviewer. . . .Klausner just wants to introduce people to lesser-known authors. She confesses her own favorite is Patricia Cornwell ...
If 73 reviews of Patricia Cornwell novels appear tomorrow at brothersjudd.com, we'll know what happened.
In related news, Brothers Judd blog has been rated a Slimy Mollusc in the blog ecosystem. Say, do these two creatures have orange beards?
Posted by Paul Jaminet at March 10, 2003 5:54 PM
Far be it from me to question a competitor, but her reviews are little more than paraphrases of the dust cover.
Posted by: oj at March 10, 2003 6:30 PMYa know, I read that article a couple of weeks ago and was shocked (shocked, I tell you) to see that two and three books a week was enough to get you named "One of America's Biggest Readers"
What has this country come to? Hurrumph.
I other related news, Orrin Judd appears in fiction
">http://www.phyllisawhitney.com/Thunder%20Heights.htm
To Camilla King, her trip up the Hudson to the huge Gothic mansion named Thunder Heights was in a way a return to the home that had never been hers. From there her grandfather, Orrin Judd, the financier, ran his vast empire.
Thunder Heights
, Phyllis Whitney, 1960
Fiction?
Posted by: oj at March 10, 2003 9:48 PM