reviews before beauty......

ok, so when the mm ventured into the library for her weekly dose of media.....vhs/dvd/prose.....she certainly didn't expect to find a first-run novel recently reviewed by all major media outlets.......zadie smith's on beautyi only picked it up because it had been everywhere......and curiously...nobody else had picked it up.......nobody.........and why so...for such great reviews.....have the danville doyennes who buy first editions of great books just passed by....or are they elsewhere today...like keeneland for opening day...or further south.......who knows.....but i savor the first line..one may as well begin with jermone's emails to his father........i like first lines...they tend to be the last whole sentence i read........bare with me as i finish the remainder of this tome.....it is the weekend......and we have 2 full days for me to finish said tome.......but then......my eldest called....he is coming for the weekend....do we mind?..........omg.......a good book and a child home for the weekend......what a dilemna......