Monday Blogcrawl

I'm living in a construction site. Our bathroom is being renovated, and so I am confined to the house overseeing tilers, plumbers and electricians. I must tell you, it is the most exhausting work. Here's how I've escaped:

• Sweet Like Sugar seems like a fascinating new novel about being gay and Jewish
• The Billings Gazette brings us a Tibetan Buddhist monk who sculpts with butter. And meanwhile, meditation becomes more and more mainstream, and the Sydney Morning Herald tells us it's going corporate
• I've discovered the most fabulous Boy George impersonator
  
• Back when I was 18 I was introduced to the film criticism of Pauline Kael, and it had a profound influence on my critical understanding. A discussion about her legacy from the New York Times
• A beautiful photograph of some Buddhas at That Luang in Vientiane, Laos - from Brian K Smith
  
• Two questions you need to answer if you want your book to be a bestseller
  
• BookBuzzr suggests 50 things we should be tweeting about
• Jacques van Heerden gives some good advice about the imprtance of following up with the people you meet