...since I last purchased a book. Until yesterday, when I finally caved in and bought two books at half price. Will the floodgates open? S...

In a surprising twist, this week's highlighted review is not a wholly negative one, nor is it a simple, amusing one-liner. It's a lo...

A lovely 'Even Hoshen' edition Czesław Miłosz and I "met" in late spring of 2006. The days were warm and sunny, the atm...

Literary Pet Peeve 1: When I find myself reading/reading about the same book I've read a thousand times before. Particularly when it is...

Organizing the mess? I don't use Goodreads all that often or all that well. I signed up years ago but never really took advantage o...

Astronomy in Netanya You know those books that seem to be missing a point? Any kind of point at all? That's the kind of book that Net...

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh has been sitting on my bookshelves for six years. I finally started reading it last week. Now, after devouring ...

When I read articles like this Huffington Post take on the NYT Book Review (via A Momentary Taste of Being ), I'm at once fascinated, i...

If there's a question I've always hated, it's "What books would take you with you to a desert island?". Particularly s...

Click to enlarge ( link ) Unshelved offers a humorous but actually rather upsetting take on budget cuts for libraries. This week's ...

Rather without planning to, I found myself reading the slim Netanya by not-yet-known to the English speaking world Dror Burstein. I've ...

To say that I loved Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke would be putting it a bit strongly. I liked the book. It was interesting, it ...

The Stacks Let's be proud for a moment: I haven't purchased any books since late November. Folks, I think this is a record. I dec...

In recognition of International Women's Day, I want to take some time to address an issue that I've long struggled with. The differ...

I was rather hesitant in approaching Ender in Exile . I've read the Ender books one after the other, gradually realizing that while Orso...

Acceptance speech I'd like to offer my enthusiastic, hearty congratulations to Shaun Tan of The Arrival fame and Andrew Ruhemann for...

In the past several months, it seems like everyone's gotten an eReader. If in the days of the book blogger survey only around 30% of bl...

I spoke in defense of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy last month, after reading the Reading Ape's great post on the matter of t...

Standing at the top of the stairs Despite the fact that my own Borders will not, in fact, be shutting down (list found via A Reader's...

Browsing book blogs, reading reviews and especially writing them means that I have a little bit more of a notion of what new (or not so new)...