This Week in Calendar

Carolyn Kellogg reviews “Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web,” edited by Sarah Boxer.

Tim Rutten reviews “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West” by Benazir Bhutto.

Donna Rifkind reviews “Judas Horse: An FBI Special Agent Ana Grey Mystery” by April Smith.

The following reviews are scheduled:

Elizabeth Brown reviews “It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture” by Vanessa R. Schwartz and “Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s” by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

Erin Aubry Kaplan reviews “Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine” by Scott E. Casper.

Richard Zimler reviews “The Painter of Battles,” a novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

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On the Web

This week at latimes.com/books:

In Word Play, Sonja Bolle looks at Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” young adult novels geared toward “reluctant readers,” the boy audience that has become the holy grail of the children’s publishing world.

Lists and blog: Look for our expanded bestseller lists, book excerpts and our calendar of local literary events.

Also, please visit Jacket Copy, our book blog, at latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy.