So, things I learned from the Daily Beast Book section. Hrm. Well, books nowadays can be extremely specific. Just like this traffic sign.
It's not enough to have a book about hairy elephants, it has to be about hairy elephants who only live in one teeny area of Sri Lanka and how they were adversely affected by the Tamil rebellion in 2009. Specific like that.
Also, it seems that any book can be interesting if the review is well written enough. DB has bunches of intriguing, descriptive reviews of books that I would never in a million years choose to read, and yet I at least contemplated reading them after DB. The site looks pretty cutting edge too, which helps.
More concretely, everything is all 'summer summer summer', so I've been building up a bit of a list for my vacation late in August. DB helped out a bit in that regard, especially for titles outside my normal beach fare.
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