I don't remember where I first read about The Monstrumologist , but I clearly remember the major critique the reviewer had against the b...

So I finally finished Three Strong Women  by Marie Ndiaye and I've even had some time to absorb it and think about it a bit. It's an...

It only seems fair that after posting about Three Strong Women 's opening story, I should also post about the following novella. Attenti...

Three links: reading books too early , an agreement , and thoughts on rereading  those classics later in life. Three links on essentially th...

Michal Ajvaz is... something else . I was blown away by The Golden Age  last year; I expected something strange and unexpected from The Othe...

There must be something in the air. Over the past forty-eight hours I started reading two new books, both which have sparked my interest in ...

This article over at NPR about eBooks and libraries echoes a lot of issues with the current eLibrary models being used: the limited scope o...

Bad translations can ruin a book. It's a sad fact of life. As someone who has dealt with translations myself, I know how hard it must be...

Wonders of the Invisible World  is the fifth book by Patricia McKillip I've read. Truthfully, she's not such a favorite author of ...

I want to end this extremely disorganized (and delayed) assessment of Middlemarch  with the thing that hit me hardest - emotions . George El...

I will admit - as I reached the end of the first section of Middlemarch , I was still somewhat skeptical. The writing was brilliant, of cour...

I knew George Eliot was a good writer after reading The Mill on the Floss . Then I read Silas Marner  and knew that she was capable of proje...

Whatever else I was expecting, it was not this. And that's stupid, because I've known George Eliot for five years now, and she certa...

From Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad , translated by Michael Kandel: In an attempt to test out a new "bard machine": "Ve...

You know that feeling, when you read a book that someone has told you is brilliant? And you know to go in with low expectations, because obv...

This is from a few weeks ago, but still: Told. You. So.  Little is as frustrating as constantly being told that my generation doesn't re...

If there's one thing reading in Hebrew has taught me, it's the value of a properly placed footnote. Unlike English, where footnotes ...

This is an interesting and vaguely weird article about the potential death of the eReader . Yes, you read that correctly - now we speculate ...

Though I am a firm believer in the negative review, I can never pretend to like giving one. It gives me absolutely no pleasure to find fault...

What does it mean if the book I'm trying to read now lulls me to sleep almost every time I pick it up? I'm not reading it late at ni...