I know there's a certain amount of you who read the picks in advance for the "CCLaP 100" series of "classics" essays I do here, so I wanted to make a note of a small programming change; that after visiting the library and checking out his books for myself for the first time, I've decided to exchange Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (which had been scheduled for a week and a half from now) for his A Farewell to Arms, simply because it seems more interesting. I hope this doesn't put anyone out too badly, and I apologize if it does. And don't forget, this Friday's book under review is the Greek-American family epic Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides; I'll have my thoughts about that book up here in just a couple more days.