Two-Post Friday

Today, 11/11/11, I have a couple of posts for your consideration...

First, Tyrus Books was good enough to let me climb up on their soapbox to talk about THE SAMARITAN. It's not crime fiction, exactly--so was a bit of an unusual read for me--although it does have crime in it. And regenerating body parts. And it is a complex, moving book. I liked it more than I thought I would, and it touched me quite deeply.

And today's Dead Guy post is about the week that was through the lens of...quotation marks. We had a plagiarized book (yeah, I'm mad about that) and a series of event that could be considered either scandal or a tempest in a teapot, depending on your perspective. All courtesy quotation marks.