The best (and worst) from list of best summer reads (The Charlotte Observer)
I don’t often write about best-sellers. For most critics it’s just superfluous: If you like the best-seller in question, you’re piling on. If you dislike it, so what? People are buying it anyway. But the New York Times best-seller list, which appears each Sunday on the Books pages, lately has featured an unusually wide-ranging selection of titles. So with summer reading in mind, here’s my take …