Greetings millers, and welcome to another fantabulous edition of the Windmill Friday Feeling - all the links you can handle and then some.

First up, the dark and strange world of bizarre Amazon products. The items themselves are odd enough, but it’s the reviews that make it for us. The baby AIDS bib! The framed print of a uterine fibroid! The 20 inch canvas Paul Ross! You know the one - Paul Ross!  That…guy! And don’t forget the canvas of Paul Ross speaking in mid-sentence! A canvas of a man biting into a hamburger! Photographic print of a woman rejecting a plate of food! (’A study in post-modern angst’ according to one reviewer.) And from our American cousins we have the ultra-safe steering wheel laptop desk! (Check the product images…) Or the horse head mask!

Best stop now before I go completely insane.

Back in the real(ish) world, here’s a great article from Slate about one contemporary reviewer’s hatchet job on John Keats’ Endymion, and what we can learn from it when it comes to reading and writing reviews today.

Beautiful and mysterious paper sculptures have been turning up around Edinburgh - what could this be about I wonder?

Want to make your own website look pretty? Here’s a hand guide called Don’t Fear the Internet, which will tell you about WordPress CMS, html, and much else.

And finally, Burgerac, a blog devoted entirely to finding the best burgers in town. It’s like they have seen INTO MY VERY SOUL. Happy weekends all!

‘The grief surrounding 9/11 is central to this exceptional debut about a changing America … The novel centres on Khan and the three family members. Through their stories and interactions Waldman builds a tale of complexity and tension…Waldman’s prose is almost always pitch-perfect, whether describing a Bangladeshi woman’s relationship with her landlady or the political manoeuvring within a jury. The characters are wholly realised and believable as individuals, but they also stand in for stories and conflicts that go beyond their own lives.’

Guardian Review

‘A decade after 9/11, Amy Waldman’s nervy and absorbing new novel, “The Submission,” tackles the aftermath of such a terrorist attack head-on. The result reads as if the author had embraced Tom Wolfe’s famous call for a new social realism … and in doing so, has come up with a story that has more verisimilitude, more political resonance and way more heart than Mr. Wolfe’s own 1987 best seller, The Bonfire of the Vanities’

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

‘The Submission is a searching, cerebral novel with the pitch and pace of a thriller’

Daily Mail

‘Sweeping novels of this sort tend to risk clumsiness by pushing their characters around in service of a message but The Submission tells a clever story very well’
4 stars Metro

‘A wonderful novel which challenges your beliefs’

The Sun

‘Waldman’s narrative is confident and her writing has a clever freshness … sensitively exploring complex issues. Waldman’s is a fine achievement’

Jewish Chronicle

‘Waldman, a former New York Times reporter, excels at involving the reader in vibrant dialogues in which the level of the debate is high and the consequences significant’

Washington Post

‘Amy Waldman’s emotionally and politically rich novel … raises wrenching post-9/11 questions about what it means to be an American’

USA Today

‘A wrenching panoramic novel about the politics of grief in the wake of 9/11

Richard Price

‘With a keen and expert eye of an excellent journalist, Waldman provides telling portraits of all the drama’s major players, deftly exposing their foibles and mutual; manipulations.’

Claire Messud, New York Times Book Review

‘Amy Waldman writes like a possessed angel’

Lorraine Adams

‘The Bonfire of the Vanities for our time’

Booklist, starred review

‘Waldman addresses with a refreshing frankness thorny moral questions and ethical ironies without resorting to breathless hyperbole’

Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

‘This is a remarkably assured portrait of how a populace grows maddened and confused when ideology trumps empathy. A stellar debut’ 

Kirkus Review, starred review

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