The Time Quartet I originally didn't want to include too many young adult books in this list of powerhouse science and fantasy litera...

After reading Meir Shalev's wonderful A Pigeon and a Boy several months ago, I decided that I liked Meir Shalev. I began to read The Bl...

When Teresa of Shelf Love mentioned "high fantasy" several weeks ago, I found myself reading through a rather enlightening Wikipe...

First in a trilogy - cliffhanger ending, but still its own book Once again, a thought provoking post from Greg Zimmerman of The New Dork...

Three strange things happened today. I started and completed a book in one day. It's been several months since this has happened and se...

This is probably the greatest video I've ever seen (book related and otherwise). (hat tip, A Momentary Taste of Being ) "A Wrin...

In a post about 2011 reading goals, Space Station Mir mentioned something worth noting: ...I would like to dedicate most of it to fantasy ...

I just finished reading The Reading Ape's wonderful response/analysis of Joan Acocella's recent New Yorker piece on the popularity...

Still powerful, three years later It seems like a very long time ago, but almost two years ago I wrote up a short post about Thirteen Re...

Extraordinary My teaser post last week did not accurately encompass my feelings towards Wolf Hall . This isn't a book that just draws...

Last year I mentioned my increasing boredom with end-of-the-year lists. I mentioned my main dislike of them . I did not mention an addition...

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...