Why, oh why did I think I would want to read this book? Actually (uncharacteristically for me) I remember exactly what drew me to this book....

I have been in a reading slump. For some reason all I’ve been able to do recently is crossword puzzles. It has certainly not been for lack o...

This book was kind of depressing. It's the 80s, and Madeleine Hanna is graduating from Brown University. She's in love with (but no ...

I love a book I can sink into, with a deep velvety story and writing so good you hardly even notice it.  Commonwealth , I think, is slightly...

I could have sworn that I wrote a blog post about this book! But I see now that I started a draft and never wrote anything. And now, whateve...

This book and I did not get off to a good start.  Sam read it first. His suggestion that I might like it seemed lukewarm. “It was pretty goo...

This was an intriguing little novella that just flew by. It felt like I'd only been reading for about five minutes when I noticed that I...

This is a really hard blog post for me to write. It would have been hard anyway, for two reasons, but unfortunately it's made even more ...

I JUST REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK. I never wanted it to end, I was enjoying it so much. It was almost like a guilty pleasure, but I just could...

Sam read this book first, told me it was quite good, and put it on my pile of books in the Reading Room. (Speaking of which, my system has b...

I spent most of this book not enjoying myself. Which is odd, because (as I'm sure I've mentioned before) I really like Ann Patchett...

My Phantoms  is narrated by Bridget, but we don't learn much about her through the course of the book; rather, we are treated to an inte...