Westgate Shopping Center

Shopping for Christmas presents at Nicola’s Books – if you spend $100 bucks, you get a free book, wrapped even! Clerk explained that the store gets review copies, can’t sell them, so sets them aside to thank customers at the holidays. Couldn’t wait to open mine: “Dead Man’s Share,” by Yasmina Khadra! According to Newsweek’s cover blurb: “One of the rare writers capable of giving meaning to the violence in Algeria today.” Well, it’s nice to have violence make sense someplace…