First Chill -- then Stupor --

If you can bear to read them, the Guardian has a great round-up of 10 books about the credit crunch, with helpful notes as to whether the authors assign blame or offer solutions (or neither), including THE BIG SHORT and PAYBACK: DEBT AND THE SHADOW SIDE OF WEALTH. Speaking of neither, the paper is also carrying an article about Glenn Beck's book and its predictably abysmal reviews, for which it quotes from a Daily Beast article terming it "instructively bad." Heh.