Did I hate or like this one? In sixth grade, my class was told that for our sci-fi/fantasy unit, we would be reading John Christopher...

I've discussed this in the past, but there's this myth in publishing (and in the literary world in general) that there was once a li...

Which plot is your favorite? Once I first realized the brilliance of George Eliot's pen in late 2007, I decided this was one of those...

What do you do when you read a horrible library book? Demand it be thrown out !

Forgotten and forgettable There's something fun about combining the librarian fun of sites like Goodreads and LibraryThing with the n...

One of the most influential books on my childhood was definitely A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle . I need only count the number ...

In a recent set of interviews and application psych tests, I found myself faced with a question that has stumped me for years now: Name and ...

It has not been so many years since childhood, and yet I've found myself in the last few years growing very distant from the books that ...

This is weird. The New York Times wrote up a piece about picture books - the recent trend where kids start with chapter books earlier and s...

The last few weeks, a book has sat on my desk looking at me with woeful eyes. This debut novel, which sounded really cool and came on sale, ...

A few things regarding this story . I know a lot of people liked Kiran Desai's  The Inheritance of Loss (I didn't. At all.), but ...

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...