Dude, no way!

Quoted: Andre Agassi's upcoming autobiography contains an admission he used crystal meth in 1997 and failed a drug test — a result thrown out after he lied by saying he "unwittingly" took the substance.

Sad, but sounds to me like a move might actually be a good idea!

Quoted: The owner of Elliott Bay Book Co. said Sunday he's considering moving the landmark Seattle business from its longtime home in Pioneer Square partly because of financial troubles.

Sounds like a really interesting read.

Quoted: Frans de Waal, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, believes that it's just as natural to be nice as it is be mean. Man may be wolf to man, as the old saying has it, but de Waal points out with casual eloquence in The Age of Empathy that wolves are often quite lovely to one another.

Ha!

Quoted: The Lost Symbol, the latest novel by The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, has gone on sale. We pick 20 of the clumsiest phrases from it and from his earlier works.

Sad ... but sounds like he lived a vibrant life.

Quoted: Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of the  Pulitzer Prize-winning epic "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday of cancer.

Yay, I love this list! I would also add The Little Prince and Where the Wild Things Are.

Quoted: Pry your kids away from the keyboard and the television, and give them a book. For ideas, here’s a summer reading list.

A friend of a friend wrote this book, and I hear he's a great writer ... can't wait to check it out!

Quoted: Satyal's lovely coming-of-age debut charts an Indian-American boy's transformation from mere mortal to Krishnaji, the blue-skinned Hindu deity.

Just saw Nandan Nilekani speak last night. Fascinating person with some great ideas (some of what he was saying reminds me of economist Amartya Sen). I've heard that this book was very well-researched.

Quoted: Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, who has been a key player in India’s growth story and was chosen by Time magazine as one of the hundred most influential people in the world, points out that the country’s future rests on more than simply economic growth; it also depends on reform and innovation in all sectors of public life.

Aw, sad :(

Quoted: John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76.