From: "Lawhorn, William - BLS" <Lawhorn.William at bls.gov> To: 'WSFA members' <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Book of the Year....? Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:25:11 -0500 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Then they must have read a better version than I did. It was ok. That = is the best I can give it. It didn't flow well and the overabundance of footnoted stories, while sometimes amusing, took away from the main = story. If it was a great book I would have flown threw the 700+ pages as it = was, it took me over two weeks to trudge through. But that is just my opinion. Bill Lawhorn=20 Bureau of Labor Statistics=20 Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections=20 2 Massachusetts Ave., NE, Room 2135=20 Washington, DC=A0 20212=20 Phone:=A0 (202) 691-5093 Fax: (202) 691-5700 Email: Lawhorn.william at bls.gov=20 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at press.jhu.edu]=20 Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 1:24 PM To: bwsmof at bwsmof.org; WSFAlist at WSFA.org Subject: [WSFA] Book of the Year....? Well, according to Time it's.... Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell <http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2004/books.html> mjw