First top list for the Year of the Rabbit

A Friday top ten (five was too tricky). Book-related news and websites from the week: 

1. The New York Times reading list for the Egypt crisis
2. Dating experience or pithy reads? Kindle Singles launched
3. Surprise best-seller: US federal Financial Crisis Inquiry Report sells out of first print run
4. Eau du sexy librarian
5. Gatsby gets the Strictly Ballroom treatment
6. Ten PM Question wins 2011 Margaret Mahy Medal
7. Gossip Girl meets American Psycho 
8. Two dimensional: Rumsfeld's memoir or Britney Spears' comic book biography? 
9. Hot dogs for Plath: famous author doodles
10. And because Valentine's Day is (almost) upon us, some vintage rrrrrrrromance covers

And it hasn't escaped me that Chinese New Year is upon us. In celebration I'm pulling Wild Swans from the shelf.  I've been meaning to read it for quite some time. And the time, it seems, is the Year of the Rabbit.