Following the recent announcements regarding this year's Pulitzer winners, the Guardian wrote up a piece about the poetry winner , WS Me...

This is already old news (though ever relevant), but I wanted to let it sink in a bit before I tackled the issue. About a month and a half a...

Who knew this still existed ? Some objections led to the removal of ["The Kite Runner"] from library shelves, while others saw it ...

Amazon has responded to complaining customers with an official statement: This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a comp...

I'm still not sure what to make of this, but so far, here are the details: Amazon.com appears to have removed many GLBT oriented books f...

For a bit of library humor, check out Unshelved.com .

I was reading the article about James Patterson the other day over at the Guardian. I started it feeling a bit annoyed and ended it feeling...

Problem - Stress. Solution - Read : Reading can reduce stress levels by 68 per cent, according to the University of Sussex research... Subje...

I'm not much of a poetry fan or poet, but there's a charm to reading poems every once in a while. Literature seems, somehow, to incl...

"Richard K. Woodward", reviewing Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge" (edited out slight spoiler, otherwise c...

I few months ago, I posted some thoughts on Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London", a book I thought deserved more than ...

Two weeks ago, I read the interesting if somewhat lacking Economist article about online book reviews. It's got some important points b...

Many of the books I read are translations from other languages. I think almost everybody reads a lot of translations, after all. Some of the...

Thanks to Jay Asher's amusing and interesting blog , I was linked to this New York Time's article . I can't express particularly...

For many readers, there's a certain magic to bookstores. It makes sense, after all. A bookstore is basically a huge room crammed with bo...

Are you a liar? Because if you are, this one's for you: • 65% of people have lied about reading a book they haven’t, with 1984 being the...

It's been a week since the Oscars but the need to fully evaluate means that this entry is slightly delayed. Oh well. Still, after finall...

Everyone is talking about the Kindle. I guess that even includes silly comics and Jon Stewart . And Jeff Bezos has the strangest laugh I...

This xkcd comic (cropped to fit by me) has little to do with the official Kindle Library Theory (except that the issue might not exist if t...

*Notice! This is a no spoiler zone ! Please refrain from mentioning anything related to season 4 of Battlestar Galactica! Thank you!* With t...