That, in fact, was sometimes precisely the case. One of the amusements of this book is the acknowledgment of occasional oversight. It was published, the box notes, on April 1, 1992. It was in March of the following year, after Waller's lachrymose elegy to impossible love had sold in the millions, that the Times got around to reviewing it. Trends in reviewing Most books may be transitory and their reviews even more so, but the enterprise of writing and reviewing leaves its traces.
Books come and go, and most go for good, never to be seen again.
But there is something reassuring in knowing they were even here, and in seeing how strong an imprint they made. The record of it is in the reviews that announced their arrival. Reviews will appear on The Denver Post Online.