I'm just about a quarter of the way through Akata Witch  by Nnedi Okorafor and to be perfectly frank, there is no point in continuing. I...

If there's one thing I don't shy away from, it's my belief in the negative review. I strongly believe that negative reviews are ...

It's official. Karen Lord is not only an author to watch, but she's an author to hunt, track down and follow with a passion. Last ...

This is one of those cases where if I'd read Little Fingers  first of Filip Florian's books (both translated by Alistair Ian Blyth),...

I'll be blunt: Melissa's post at Scuffed Slippers and Wormy Books about children's reading scores and their according recommend...

* This review is of the translation from Norwegian into Hebrew. As far as I can tell, the lead story "Thomas F's Last Notes to the ...

Once or twice a year, I'll read a book that is so amazing, so wonderful, so utterly entrancing that I will devour it eagerly and also ho...

I had only a few distracted hours separating between  Between Friends  and  And the Mountains Echoed . It was an abrupt and rather unpleasan...

Between Friends ... between friends Readers may recall a few months ago I read Amos Oz's The Black Box , saying that I was debating ...

One of the reasons I joined Twitter a couple months ago was to breach what I felt was an uncomfortable divide between myself and the greater...

Rather like the time it takes to start a fire, it took me a while to get into Before I Burn , and possibly even longer to finish it. Befor...

I don't plan my reading. I don't have books I "bump up the TBR". I don't look at my books and say which is going to be...

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...