RA Alert: Bataan Death March
Let’s start a new award, for “The Review That Most Makes You Want to Read the Book.” It’s surprising how few would qualify.
My nominee this week comes from the NYT BR, in a special category, “Most Made Me Want to Read a Book about a Subject I’m Not Drawn to,” for Dwight Garner’s review of Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman.
Library reserves are averaging 5 to 1 in six large systems we checked. It’s been moving up Amazon and is currently at #22, indicating it will appear on next week’s best seller lists.
What about you? Seen any reviews lately that made you say, “I’ve just gotta read that one”?
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Also in audio from Tantor:
Narrator: Michael Prichard
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July 15th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
[…] As we already mentioned, Dwight Garner’s review in the New York Times first made us want to read the book and helped it land on the Times bestseller list. […]