Clinton book bores critics, thrills booksellers

Reviews have been discouraging and conservatives are on the attack, but booksellers still expected the best as they braced for today’s release of Bill Clinton’s My Life, the year’s most anticipated non-fiction book.

“It’s like adult Harry Potter mania. We haven’t seen anything like this since JK Rowling came here,” said Michael Link, a bookseller for Politics & Prose, a Washington-based store.