While I had high hopes for The Buddha in the Attic , I don't think I ever really expected to like it. Another example of my prejudices a...

This is blasphemy, I know, but I have to get this off my chest. I have long supported libraries. I  know  that libraries face increasing ...

Liberty to the left, Freedom to the right... Following the recent publication of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom  in Hebrew, this week...

I started reading There But For The by Ali Smith because it's a book with a wonderful premise: a man has locked himself in an almost str...

Though I have a long history with nonfiction, I tend to read mostly fiction these days. And certainly of the nonfiction I do  read, it's...

Finally, a major publisher is moving in the absolutely right direction:  Tor books has decided to go DRM-free , sparking a sudden boom in th...

I came across this post by Jen Doll at The Atlantic about the greatest girl characters of young adult literature through Tor.com (my numbe...

In a comment on a review of Amos Oz's Scenes from Village Life  over at Tony's Reading List , I remarked that there's a new shif...

After years of arguing against the alleged "golden age" of literacy and literature, I have to admit to a bit of smug delight in s...

In the space of a few short months, I've gone from having read nothing by Diana Wynne Jones to wanting to read everything she's wri...

Original and enticing A friend - upon noticing a clear preference for science fiction in her recent reads - once commented that she had ...

While I don't necessarily agree with everything she says about eBooks, this is still a very interesting post by the ever-brilliant Ursu...

This at-first unremarkable-seeming  Guardian article about the rise of eBook annotations and note-taking immediately reminded me of a conve...

I read an interesting post over at The Speculative Scotsman about the marketing technique applied to the new editions of Scott Westerfeld...

Most of you have probably heard by now about Encyclopaedia Britannica ending its 244-year print run . Many sites and blogs have wondered abo...

Years ago, I wrote about my hesitation in rating or reviewing books too quickly . This is a mistake I frequently make, often jumping to conc...

From a comment on this Guardian article on foreign fiction translations: " There's one great plus about being brought up in a mi...

I recently heard this excellent distinction between the two genres. Fantasy: Because it's magic, dammit!  Sci-fi: Because it's ...

To say that I loved reading The Golden Age  by Michal Ajvaz would be an understatement. This is the book I've been waiting for: that fan...

I'll be posting more about this one in a couple of days, but even after several days of thinking about it and writing about it, I'm ...