read this!

After much anticipation, The Litblog Co-Op has chosen the first recommendation for its Read This! campaign: Kate Atkinson's Case Histories. It's interesting to read the comments that debate whether or not LBC has lived up to its mission to "draw attention to the best of contemporary fiction, authors and presses that are struggling to be noticed in a flooded marketplace." Since LBC's decisions are committee-driven and this is only their first recommendation, I think the critics should back off and see what they get up to next. One book does not a policy make.