Here's a book that looked as if it ought to have reached critical mass but sadly never did. Several things on the back cover grabbed m...

I hardly ever accept review requests. This is partly because I prefer to spend my limited time reading books of my own choosing, but mainly ...

For this book, I should get the "Why Are You Surprised?" award. It's a book about the workings of the gastrointestinal syste...

I first came across this book at Books-A-Million (of course). The peaceful cover and pleasing size caught my eye, as well as the lovely wo...

I've now finished my fourth Chevalier. (Three to go . . . eventually. You know how it is.) As expected, I can't fault the writing ...

This certainly wasn't the most amazing book I've ever read. I could pick apart the characters (which were flat and uninteresting--...

I've read an embarrassingly small number of Hemingway's works. If I remember right, I haven't gotten beyond A Farewell to Arms...

Shortest blog post ever: When I first heard about The History of History , I told my husband it sounded like "our kind of book....

I finished reading this on a plane ride. During the same trip, I watched the movie  Boyhood . I mention this fact because the two narratives...

I'm in the habit of reading books cover-to-cover, beginning to end, including all quotes and introductions preceding the actual text. ...

My feelings about this one changed as I was reading it, from weary cynicism to excited wonder. I can't remember how I first heard about ...

I don't know why I'm hesitating to say I loved this book. Maybe it's the fact that my copy was endorsed by Oprah's Book Cl...