From an excellent guest post by Sharon T Rose over at Drying Ink about the relevance of science fiction : Science fiction in all it incarna...

Her laughter was never more to peal in the United Principalities or anywhere on this earth. Her sufferings had dissolved in a place of green...

Much like the very concept of SAFL, I'm stealing this idea directly from Space Station Mir . For those who may have forgotten (due to my...

I've waited a few days to write about The Fault in Our Stars  by John Green . It hasn't been very easy to collect my thoughts. For s...

One of my favorite movies is without a doubt  Fiddler on the Roof . Everything about it - from the score, to the songs, to the wit, to the c...

I don't like to do end-of-the-year posts, but I do have some quick comments about my "official" 2011 reading year (even if I s...

I decided to read In the Sea There Are Crocodiles  based this review from BookSexy, mostly because in that review, Tolmsted mentioned that ...

It was almost a year ago that I wondered about the status of series as single entities or as comprised of linked, individual novels. Since ...

I just finished reading this post over at Ripple Effects from a couple weeks back about book trailers. Arti writes a few seriously thought-...

I have a pretty simple rule regarding eBooks: I don't pay for them. This typically means I scour the internet for free downloads, worshi...

Fads swept the youth of the Sprawl at the speed of light; entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish...

That is, if the month-long fast is a period of three weeks with only one book completed and little desire to read anything else. I finally ...

In continuation of what I mentioned yesterday regarding Amazon's dirty trick to snatch business away from brick-and-mortar stores, this ...

I unfortunately can't remember the hat-tip, but someone linked to this article  on the habit of book-browsing in corporeal bookstores an...

Old books are just the best. The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas, pere

It's been a while since I've done a SAFL ( Science and Fantasy Literature ) title but I recently finished reading Solaris  by Stanis...

My memory isn't perfect. There are many books I read as a kid that I don't fully remember, and then there are those I remember vivid...

I spent the other evening browsing for books at the bookstore. This being a standard chain bookstore, the selection was limited (to say the ...

Yes . Mantel is now planning a Tudor trilogy: a new novel, Bring up the Bodies to be published by 4th Estate in May 2012, will focus on the...

Yesterday, I mentioned to a colleague that I'm a book reviewer and that I keep a book blog. She responded with surprise. I'm not sur...