book reviews won't save america.

Colleen weighs in on all the drama about book reviewing going down, picks up on the quote that was making me nuts every time, and TOTALLY calls it, as far as i'm concerned:

"We got along just fine without newspaper book reviews; I don't know what we would have done without unlimited free access to books.

I do enjoy a good book review and I wish there was money enough to support their inclusion in every major newspaper in America. But I know - I know - that they are not the center of American literacy or the lynchpin upon which our culture is built. That's the public library system, and that is where the battle for the books should be fought."

(via sarah weinman, of course!)