At work we’ve all been buzzing about the review we knew was coming out in Entertainment Weekly this week for Mary Pols‘ first book, her memoir “Accidentally on Purpose.” I guess it’s like family … Mary worked side-by-side with us for so long as our movie critic, we sooooooooo wanted the review to be a good one.

And, it is. I just got my magazine a few minutes ago, and they loved it. They gave it an A-. I don’t know about you, but even if it’s a B in Entertainment Weekly, I sit up and take notice. I really trust certain publications and writers, and EW is one of them. (Plus, of course, they have the good sense to have Gillian Flynn on staff as a TV critic, and she wrote one of my favorite novels of the year, “Sharp Objects.“)

Needless to say, we’re all thrilled at the Times. The phone lines are buzzing. I left a message on Mary’s cell but she’s down at the Booksellers Expo America convention in LA, promoting her book and meeting great authors (and they are meeting HER!)

As you know, I’ll be in conversation with Mary at Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette at 7 p.m. Monday June 9. It’s a small theater, as I’ve said, so we can all be in on the conversation. (And, as I’ve also said, you can buy a drink at the bar downstairs and take it to your seat.) Mary’s book, which goes on sale June 3, will be sold at Town Hall at a discount by Kathleen Caldwell, owner of A Great Good Place For Books, who says “Accidentally on Purpose” is one of her favorite books this year.

And by the way … I would like this book even if I didn’t know Mary. Obviously I’m not alone!