The book in question: Wolf Hall . Further information: This book will be finished by today. If I need to stay awake until tomorrow morning ...

It's not often that someone around me raises a bookish topic of discussion, but yesterday a question arose, one that got me thinking qui...

Being bilingual has its downsides. I'll read a great book, look to share it with a world of readers and find that the book is, unsurpris...

This weekend was the first in a long time that felt good for reading. True, I still haven't finished the collection of short stories I...

Long story short: my operating system can no longer use Sony's eReader library program (and good riddance, too...), leading me inevitabl...

I respond to this New Dork Review of Books post about whether or not readers notice who publishes the book they're reading at a bit of ...

I don't know whether to be intrigued by this or disturbed by the potential for gimmicks (via Bookshelves of Doom ). Medallion Press h...

This is an interesting article: Though you won't find it in Webster's, there's a word to describe the kind of meticulously co...

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...