Sunday Afternoon Update

Le Carre Fan

Musical Philosopher

Between the weather and the anticipation of the Patriots' game, it's been a somewhat quiet afternoon in the store today.  While you may be gearing up for Tom versus Peyon XVI, as well, I wanted to make sure you didn't miss a couple of interesting tidbits in the Sunday papers.  First, the Boston Globe Bibliophiles column  interviewed John Cleese about his new memoir, "So Anyway..."  Turns out he's a big John le Carre fan.  Must be his understated English sensibility.  Secondly, Bruce Springsteen is the author of a new picture book called "Outlaw Pete" and is interviewed in the "By the Book" column in the NY Times Book Review where he lays out a most impressive reading syllabus.  He's just finished reading "Moby Dick" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" in parallel.  He riffs on all the major Russian writers as well as Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, and Richard Ford.  I was thinking he would be a great addition to the Book Group when he mentioned Bertrand Russell's "History of Western Philosophy" as the book that you might be most surprised to find on his nightstand.  So given the connection, I was thinking maybe Mark could approach him and let him know the next date for the Book Group.