Quick book look

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Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia - despite the subject, not as interesting to me as some of his books - the anecdotes are quite short, and a lot of time is spent on amusia. One fascinating thing: the incidence of musical hallucinations is much more common than you'd think; estimates are that as many as one in four people will have a musical hallucination at some time in their lives, and that there are probably about as many people who have repeated or near-constant musical hallucinations as there are completely deaf people. So chances are, if your circle of acquaintances is large enough to include someone who's deaf, you also know someone who, unbeknownst to you, has musical hallucinations.
Jane Haddam, Cheating at Solitaire - latest in the Gregor Demarkian series. Partly a Hollywood roman a clef and while I realized promptly that "Stewart Gordon" is Patrick Stewart, it took me longer than it should have to figure out that Arrow Normand is Brittney Spears spelled backward.