CAAF: Morning coffee

I’m back. After a week of second-guessing whether I should have sprung for the $115 antibiotics, whatever respiratory crud I had seems to have cleared out.
• “I tried to make myself read it, my mouth gaping in a silent scream, but I failed.”: In the Sunday Times, critics such as Stephen Amidon and John Carey pick their most-loathed books. Turns out, Patricia Cornwell has a lot to answer for. (Via Lit Saloon.)
• The San Diego Union-Tribune profiles the wonderful Jincy Willett. (Via Sarah Weinman.)
• The semicolon is dead. Long live the semicolon!