The Strand is having a sale this weekend - $10 for as many books as you can stuff into a shopping bag. Before you get too excited, these books cost $1.00 each, so it's safe to say that you are doing them a bigger favor than they are doing you.
I decided to dive into the dreck anyway. I passed on countless first novels (do authors whose first novels wind up on the $1.00 table ever write second novels? And why do so many have pictures of the ocean on their covers?), books by or about Linda Ellerbee, books about "extraordinary women," the memoir of a female martial artist, Inviting God to Your Wedding, and the like.
But then I found The Man Who Tried to Buy the World: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal (who doesn't love reading about a business scandal in the summer, especially if it involves a flamboyant Frenchman?) and David Halberstam's War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, a completely out-of-date look at America's foreign policy.
Awesome, right?
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