Today’s book news:

• Amazon announces the best books of 2010
• Despite tantalizing embargo, Bush memoir yields little of interest
• Mordecai Richler’s widow takes in film adaptation of Barney’s Version
• Sales down at Harlequin
• Stop the madness! Author plans to write 24 three-day novels in a year
• We missed this last week: Leanne Shapton’s Native Trees of Canada sketchbook