There's a new thingy called Booknet, a book industry sales-tracking system that for the first time makes accurate bestseller lists possible.
Recent list is dominated as always by Oprah and Binchy and Grisham and so on. But number 4 on the list was Ted Barris's latest military history, Victory at Vimy (a Thomas Allen Publishers book) -- a title I wasn't even aware of. Hey, book readers are collectively smarter than me, no contest there.
I know they keep telling you Canadians don't know their history, don't read it, don't support it. It's always been nonsense. Nice to see Booknet proving it. Nice for Ted, too -- well done.
