Lo, this land that lifts around it Threatening peaks, while stern seas bound it, With cold winters, summers bleak, Curtly smiling, never ...

Finish On Parole .  Eat some apples. Sleep. 959 pages of A Dance with Dragons .

A few stories and bits of news that have caught my eye this week: * Goodreads launched its recommendations feature , finally convincing me...

I just started reading Herztier ( The Land of Green Plums in English) by Herta Müller and I find myself repeatedly thinking one completely...

It's well documented that I like Artemis, my Sony Touch Reader. Certain features - like double-tapping an unfamiliar word - have become ...

Today, we highlight one of the face-palming, head-banging, sigh-causing things that Amazon, this once-actually-kind-of-chill (maybe when I w...

Literary Pet Peeve #2: Chess as the marker of intelligence You know that thing where authors try to write realistic teenagers? Yeah, so de...

Remember months back, when I wrote a quick post about different types of hype ? One of my final conclusions was that based on the different ...

Adam Whitehead over at The Wertzone asks an interesting question: is Harry Potter epic fantasy ? Reading the comments, opinions are various...

When my mother says she wants to boycott a specific musician for his politics, I find myself getting annoyed. "Separate the man and his...

During this final week of vacation, I finally got the opportunity to do two things I don't normally have the time (or the correct countr...

I read Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn years ago, swallowing the book in one go at the library one summer afternoon. The book surprised ...

This vacation has me seeing bookstores all across the world, and I have to say that the experience is quite eye-opening. Bookstores may typi...

When I first got a cell-phone at the ripe old age of 14, I found myself suddenly in possession of a great deal more freedom than I'd eve...

A few months ago, when the idea of reading Ursula K. Le Guin 's Earthsea cycle seemed distant and unrealistic, I came across a colleagu...

I recently saw that a few months back, Unshelved had a Friday comic which raised a rather interesting and relevant question. While reviewin...

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...