Image from Wikipedia Disclosure: I tried to read Flatland a while back but somehow stalled, despite quite liking it. I never really forg...

One of the things I've only recently learned to love about Gutenberg.org is the potential for surprise. If years ago when I first discov...

Can someone explain this one to me? I recently got my I-have-no-idea-how-often-it-comes eNewsletter from the Boston Public Library (BPL) and...

I've been reading too many blog posts and articles recently about Harry Potter. And seeing the giant posters everywhere. "It all en...

I'm really sick of this. You know when you're reading the back cover of a book, and it references something? And you're like, ...

Unfortunately, I can't find a translation of the interview into English, but a few weekends ago I read a very interesting (and very fru...

Every year around the end of May, the book blogging world is abuzz with news about BEA: bloggers reporting that they're attending, blogg...

Parts 1 and 2 . But what of the smaller publishers? Was I only talking to the publishers who felt safe at Hebrew Book Week, those who kne...

For part 1, see here . Am Oved Years ago, at a bookstore, my father saw me eying an Am Oved ( Working People ) novel. "Take it,...

If on Thursday I commented that Hebrew Book Week (HBW) is an event that's enjoyable even without purchasing books (enjoyable for the ...

"I'm a bibliophile / and I also know what that means" - Even Hoshen Hebrew Book Week or HBW ( Hebrew site ) is... awesome....

Yesterday marked the launch of one of my favorite yearly events - Hebrew Book Week. The morning opened with the now-familiar writers/poet ta...

I started reading this Forbes post about "the 10 most powerful women authors" and my first reaction was surprise. This is because...

I first encountered Chingiz Aitmatov's The Day Lasts More than a Thousand Years thanks to a few great posts by the Amateur Reader . In ...

I wrote about various forms of sexism in literature and the literary world a few months back, thinking that would cover most of the potenti...

Sites like this make me roll my eyes. And then laugh. A lot. (hat tip, The Boston Bibliophile )

This photo doesn't show just how large the book really is As I neared the end of the very long The Invisible Bridge (or perhaps what...

The back of Laurie Halse Anderson 's Wintergirls touts it as "her most powerfully moving novel since Speak ". Fans of young a...

I want to link to this series of Mother's Day posts over at Books, Personally before it disappears into the obscurity of the archives. T...

There has been a small amount of criticism and issue taken with author Joyce Carol Oates' recent memoir about widowhood, A Widow's S...