I have started The Romance of the Forest, by Anne Radcliffe, and while it’s probably giving me hair on my chest, or building my character, or something, I’m just not feeling a lot of love towards this book. (zzzzzzz…..)

There is another book that I did want to get read this year, and so I’m offering it now as an Emergency Ye Olde Booke Club Selection. I’d like to get this one OFF my lifetime TBR list. I’d like to find out what all the hub-bub was about enveloping this book and author upon its publication.

Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses.