If you are in need of beach reading…

…this one could be entertaining. Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobigraphy of Kola Boof is about a Sudanese-American women who claims to have been the mistress of Osama bin Laden. Boof is a self-styled “womanist poet” and, it would appear she and James Frey are a matched pair. She claims, in one lurid passage, to have performed sex acts on Bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, Abdullah Azzam, and Sayyid Qutb in Morocco in 1996. Peter Bergen points out in his review that “in 1996 bin Laden was living in Sudan, Ayman al Zawahiri was imprisoned in Dagestan, Azzam had been assassinated in Pakistan thirteen years earlier, and Qutb had been lying in his grave for three decades.” Cheeky Brit. Read all of Bergen’s review on his website at www.peterbergen.com.