There's a hint of " finally " in my discovery of Trafalgar  by Angélica Gorodischer  (translated by Amalia Gladhart). Not just...

So I've been thinking about this Youtube video  for the last couple of days and I've reached the following non-conclusions: generati...

"New or old?" This was the question I asked myself as I stared at the two books on the shelf. The bookstore offered autographed ...

It is perhaps the mark of a relatively weak reading year thus far, but there's no doubt that the book I tore through the fastest (and wi...

You've all probably heard by now that Amazon has bought out Goodreads. This is turning out to be a pretty big deal in both the book blog...

A couple months ago, I posted about what I saw as the strange phenomenon of readers avoiding a convenient and free method of acquiring eBoo...

Two things. First of all:  Ryan  left a very interesting comment on my previous post about women and men, rightly referencing something...

There's something about charts. You can list statistics, you can have gut feelings, you can suspect... but nothing hits harder and prov...

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...