Book Rec of the Day 1/21/2007

FUNNY AND QUIRKY FICTION

A breezy comic novel that offers hope to even the most hopeless of us. Plato G. Fussell is a neurotic hypochondriac obsessed with completing his 10-volume history of President Fillmore. The only thing that could get in his way is love. And the only thing worse than falling in love is falling in love with your shrink’s wife. “Deliciously goofy,” promises Carl Reiner.

MILLARD FILLMORE, MON AMOUR, by John Blumenthal (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004)