Fervent Reader

Here are the current New York Times bestsellers in a handful of the more popular categories. Hardcover Fiction: 1. FREEDOM, by Jonathan Franzen 2. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson 3. NO MERCY, by Sherrilyn Kenyon 4. GETTING TO HAPPY, by Terry McMillan 5. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett Hardcover Nonfiction: [...]

Summary (from the publisher): “After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is “like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,” has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad [...]