So Marie (the Boston Bibliophile ) kindly requested I post about my recent trip to Ireland. Simply put: it was fun. But more than the vacati...

So I've been reading this fairly slim Israeli, independently published poetry collection for just over a month now. I'm not done yet...

What's worse - a bad book that makes you feel so passionately about it you're angry for days and days just thinking about the ending...

The cliche to reading Sylvia Plath entails a certain darkness. It should be nighttime, cold, the reader in a dark and hushed environment, wr...

I wouldn't even call Antonio Muñoz Molina's  In Her Absence  a novella. It's a short story, or even more accurately, a prologu...

A great post about the impact of eReading on one's reading habits - for me, eReading will never be able to fully replace print (for pr...

I want to link to Ria's excellent post over at Bibliotropic not only because it's brilliant, but also because it's something t...

An Armenian Sketchbook  is a short book, almost an interlude. I first heard about it from Stefanie of So Many Books , and was so enamored by...

I'll say this - Jo Walton does deserve some praise and respect. Not only does Among Others  break free of many of fantasy and sci-fi...

I'm linking to this video, even though it's in Hebrew and I know the majority of you won't be able to understand it, but just in...

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 ...