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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the October 23rd issue include:


Eating the Dinosaur, by Chuck Klosterman. Scribner. ESSAYS. EW's slant: "...comes off practically as a shut-in (albeit one with a top-notch DVD collection) ...despite being stuck a bit too much in his own head, Klosterman's essays are still both witty and clever." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He's covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he's written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he's forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming. In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he's dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan's inevitably hate their favorite band's latest album, or why we love watching can't-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It's amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it's incredibly funny." -books.simonandschuster.com.

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen. Henry Holt. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "...hilarious collection of musings on Janzen's childhood, marriage, and eccentric family.". Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (27 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"At first, the worst week of Janzen's life - she gets into a debilitating car wreck right after her husband leaves her for a guy he met on the Internet and saddles her with a mortgage she can't afford - seems to come out of nowhere, but the disaster's long buildup becomes clearer as she opens herself up. Her 15-year relationship with Nick had always been punctuated by manic outbursts and verbally abusive behavior, so recognizing her co-dependent role in their marriage becomes an important part of Janzen's recovery (even as she tweaks the 12 steps just a bit). The healing is further assisted by her decision to move back in with her Mennonite parents, prompting her to look at her childhood religion with fresh, twinkling eyes." - Publishers Weekly.