Linkety Literary Link -- other folks' thoughts on books

I've had my nose buried in books for the better part of last week, and while I was busy getting lost in the pages of the books mentioned elsewhere on this site and on San Antonio Book Review, other people have been busy burying their respective noses in different books, interviewing authors, reporting on book festivals, and reviewing books I've yet to lay my greedy bibliophilic paws on.  Here are some recent entries from different websites that caught my eye:

Thomas Cullen reviewed The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers for the LA Times: "Are they inhuman? Are they superheroes?"
On the Huffington Post, Jesse Kornbluth, the editor of HeadButler.com, wrote a review of Dani Shapiro's Devotion: "Devotion is for Everyone Over 30 Who Know Less and Less Every Day"
Elsewhere on HuffPo, Hillel Italie shared the list of nominees for the National Book Critics Circle prize: "Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and National Book Award finalists Jayne Anne Phillips and Bonnie Jo Campbell were among the nominees"  Read on...
Vikas Bajaj reported for The New York Times on the Jaipur Literature Festival: "At Festival in India, Books are the Buzz"
On Salon.com, Laura Miller gives a thumbs up to I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester: "John Lanchester's new book is the most fun you'll ever have learning about worldwide economic collapse"
On NPR, Terry Gross interviewed Jonah Lehrer about his book, How We Decide: "'How We Decide' and the Paralysis of Analysis"
ETA: The Oatmeal schools his readers on proper semicolon usage: "How to Use a Semicolon: The Most Feared Punctuation on Earth"