As any writer knows (or quickly learns) the publishing world is largely ruled these days by book bloggers; like or not, they've replaced the reviews in that quaint waning dead-tree medium called "newspapers". Here's one from Santa Barbara, sent my way by Michael C. (And as I often say, I don't read reviews or for that matter read much of what anyone's writing unless it's a personal email; just am posting it all here for the record.)