Books

> Debates are raging online and off over whether the new Pope Benedict really disapproves of Harry Potter. > It seems a German author, Gabriele Kuby, recently wrote a book called "Harry Potter - Gut Oder Bose" (that translates as "Harry Potter - Good or Evil,"

The new Harry Potter is selling 250,000 copies an hour. Rowling made over $36 million in a day. This type of frenzy in a medium that's dead? Interesting. Link [http://www3.contactmusic.com/news/index15.htm].

> According to America's New York Post newspaper, a source has alleged the pop queen did not write her Kabbalah-inspired children's books by herself. > The insider claims the stories - 'The English Roses', 'Mr. Peabody's Apples', 'Yakov and

Tech Central Station has run a neat--though somewhat chilling--piece about the sci-fi work of Philip K. Dick. Link [http://www.techcentralstation.com/071105B.html]. Excerpt: > Indeed, Dick, although stone-cold dead for nearly a quarter-century, is doing pretty well. His 50 volumes of fiction have inspired such classic movies as

The Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute has run a review of Christina Hoff Sommers' and Sally Satel's book, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance. We'd give the review a five, on a scale of 1-10, but the book sounds pretty

Eric Scheske isn't a big Harry Potter fan, but his wife and oldest son, Alex, love the books (last count, Alex had read one of the books (stifle gag) eight times). So this is for them: How to make your own Harry Potter coins: > You'll

A.J. Jacobs read the 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, A to Z. He then wrote a book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. It's a good book: filled with facts and funny comments. It's

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is mailing out free copies of the Koran. Go here [http://www.cair-net.org/explorethequran/] to order one. Ten dudes with black scarves around their faces will even visit your house thirty days after you order. To, you know, answer any questions you have about