We love books here at the Editorial Department...even the ones we weren't personally involved with.  However, with dozens of newspapers, magazines and websites covering new releases, it can be difficult to keep track of what people are saying about books newly on shelves.  To try to resolve that dilemma, we offer our Tuesday Review Wrapup, using the last sentences of prominent book reviews as literary tea leaves to discern the trends guiding our industry.  This week, we're looking at Nick Hornby's Juliet, Naked.

•  "It's easy to imagine all of them on screen; Hornby's novels often become movies. But the book reminds us that it's a book, first: It turns on an e-mail correspondence and concerns itself with how what we create can be read (and over-read), all in Hornby's swift, shiny, funny writing style. And you might say that Tucker Crowe resembles a literary rock star -- Bucky Wunderlick, from Don DeLillo's "Great Jones Street," a few decades down the line -- that is, if you obsess about those kinds of things."   - Los Angeles Times

• "Crowe is a great, complicated and intelligent character who's messed up every relationship in his life. After having five kids by four different women, he's finally trying to be a father — in his own way. It all makes for what could be another good movie. Here's hoping the soundtrack lives up to the novel."  -  USA Today

•  "There are some gems in the final third of the book. The revelation of what really happened in Minneapolis is perfect. Duncan gets to strike a blow for obsessive fans everywhere with one plaintive remark to his hero. Hornby takes a risk with the final few pages of the book. Some readers will find it brilliant; others will be disappointed. Perhaps they'll even debate it on the Internet."  -  Dallas Morning News

•  "Still, as I read along, I couldn’t help thinking about “Songbook,’’ a celebration of favorite records that Hornby put out in 2002. In that book, he writes about the world with considerably more insight and feeling than he allows the characters in “Juliet.’’ His fiction is always engaging, but it seeks too much to charm. Which is a sharp way of saying something that I hope can be read as kind: As much as I enjoyed Crowe and his ardent Crowologists, I suspect I’d have been happier in the company of Hornby himself."  - Boston Globe

•  "Still, "Juliet, Naked" is a rich and perceptive novel, with a keen sense of the lives led by the trio at its core. Duncan gradually realizes that his ardent consumption of every morsel of Crowe-related information is a way of compensating for his stunted emotional life. Crowe struggles, usually unsuccessfully, with the question of how to marry his freewheeling artistic spirit to the demands of adult life. And Annie is a case study in how caution can lead, just as surely as recklessness, to a lifetime's worth of regrets."  - Wall Street Journal