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Or Would You Say Christmas Cradle? </h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p style="font-family: Georgia;">Janet Maslin at the New York Times has listed The Cradle amongst her <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/giftguide-maslin/list.html" target="_blank">ten favorite reviewed books of the year</a>, and I'm thinking that perhaps you may want to take this opportunity to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Novel-Patrick-Somerville/dp/0316036129/ref=sr_oe_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244759145&sr=1-1" target="_blank">buy</a> <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316036122" target="_blank">up</a> some of the few remaining hardcover copies that are out there in the world? It just seems like that's what you're trying to say. Maybe I'm reading this whole thing wrong.</p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Yes, the paperback will be out April 11. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">But no, you cannot give that to your cousin for Christmas or other various holiday celebrations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I'm saying this as a non-partisan, kinda outside observer.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> Posted by Patrick Somerville at 05:07:29 PM </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">  </script>  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">_qoptions = { tags:"typepad.core" }; _qacct="p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM"; quantserve();</script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM" target="_blank"><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM.gif?tags=typepad.core" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/></a> </noscript>  <script type="text/javascript"> var captchaImgAttempts = 0; var allowAnonComments = '0'; var registrationRequired = 0; var registrationOptional = 0; var emailRequired = 1; var useAvatars = 0; var showSignInMessaging = 0; var jsonURL = "/.services/json-rpc"; var captchaSrc = "/.services/captcha?code_encrypted="; var alertCommentCannotBeBlank = "You can not leave an empty comment. 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