* Booksellers and fans are gearing up for the just-past-midnight launch of Christopher Paolini’s BRISINGR. In the UK, Waterstone’s children’s buyer Claudia Mody tells the Telegraph, “It’s our biggest pre-order campaign for anything since the final Harry Potter novel. Bigger than Sebastian Faulk’s James Bond novel, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight or Delia Smith’s How to Cheat at Cooking. It’s going to be huge.” * The WSJ dubs books like Reading the OED and works of AJ Jacobs as “grit lit,” calling them “the geek equivalent of extreme sports.” Joanne Kaufman adds: “The popularity of such books makes perfect sense. After all, […]