When people ask me if I dislike Amazon, I find myself struggling to explain my issues with the website that for so many years has been my pr...

A couple weeks ago, I got a phone call from a relative asking me about eReaders. The relative, knowing my interest in the matter, wanted to ...

A subsection of the gender debate that arose following the raving New York Times review of Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom" is a ...

We talk about cover art a lot and how that helps determine our opinion of a book ("Don't judge a book by its cover!" even tho...

Last year before reading One Hundred Years of Solitude , I was told that the book is impossible to set aside. Almost everyone I knew who had...

Almost a year after purchasing my Sony Reader, I have read over 30 digital books thanks to the device. And this not counting essays, poems, ...

I think I've mentioned before that I don't like banning books. I don't really thing anyone who claims to truly love the written ...

All posts relating to the book blogger survey can be found under this tag . A compiled list of results can be found here . As some readers m...

Some unrelated, stupid thoughts on North and South from the first couple of chapters: I don't remember the last time a book had a decla...

One of the sub-genres I've recently discovered (knowing full well that this has existed for a while) is that of the "novel in stori...

I just searched for "A Pigeon and a Boy" on Amazon (great book, by the way - more on that another time) and discovered that the Ki...

After finding and reading Nico Vreeland's great post over at Chamber Four about publishing (at a bit of a delay, perhaps...), I had to ...

This is interesting. Over at Survival of the Book , Christopher raises the idea of instating subscription fees for local libraries. For now,...

Something that recently made the rounds is the blurb author Nicole Krauss attached to David Grossman's forthcoming novel, "To the ...

This one is entertaining with no additional comment. Reviewer "Mao Ze Dong" writes a review for "The Amulet of Samarkand...

I firstly want to thank all readers who commented on my recent post about "The Passage" - a book I have not read, but apparently...

I read "The Grapes of Wrath" on a summer visit to an Eastern European country, an apt setting for this novel. Alongside the grim s...

Following the massive buzz surrounding South African stadiums--er, Justin Cronin's incredibly well-publicized book "The Passage...

One of the more commonly used methods to figure out if an unknown book is for you is the first page test. Or first chapter. Or, occasionally...

The last couple of weeks have seen the rise of two lists that have been making the rounds, two lists not of books but rather of authors: the...