I normally don't like these types of lists, but seriously this one is spot-on. Read and enjoy . (number nine's flowchart is partic...

I was introduced to Mercè Rodoreda back in my early days of book blogging, through Three Percent and Open Letter Books. I read Death in Spri...

The Goodreads group Loosed in Translation has a discussion I only just noticed, essentially asking members whether they've ever read a ...

It's kind of hard to start a book like  Beside the Sea  without knowing how it's going to end. Maybe it had been spoiled for me in ...

This is brilliant , courtesy of Maureen Johnson . I asked people to take a well-known book, then to imagine the author of that book was of...

Is there something about Chinese fiction that's problematic for me? Of the four Chinese novels I've read (or gave up on for very goo...

It was about a year ago that I wrote a fairly angry post about the Boston Public Library's general failings as, well, a library. Though...

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...