*Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman This is the second of four books that ChatGPT chose for me from my TBR (and I have just now rea...

My Good Bright Wolf is a deeply personal memoir by Sarah Moss, who also wrote several other books I have enjoyed. I didn't know what to ...

I'm not doing a very good job of reading my four ChatGPT-selected titles from my TBR pile. One down, three to go, and this was not one o...

Next in the lineup of Book Treats for our July vacation (even though the vacation has now ended), an old-but-new-to-me book by Rachel Cusk. ...

Don't let this immediately put you off, but  Memorial Days is a grief memoir. Until his untimely death in 2019, Geraldine Brooks was mar...

I am becoming convinced that there are two different Maggie O’Farrells: one who has written amazing books like After You’d Gone , Hamnet , a...

This is my dream world: reading all the time.  Before our vacation in May of 2022, we treated ourselves to a handful of new books to bring w...

After how long it took me to choose this book , I decided to take a surprising new tack: I asked ChatGPT to choose my next four reads. The 7...

I guess I knew this was only a short story when I bought it, but I was surprised when it arrived by how tiny it is. It’s hardly bigger than ...

After I finished my last book of fiction, I took a long time to select my next one. I had plenty to choose from, so that wasn't the prob...

Nearly a year and a half ago, I ordered four books about climate change, aiming to fill gaps in my knowledge. I chose one that was very simp...

Following closely on the heels of yesterday’s finally-concluded book and aided by a day off work, I’ve finished reading this collection of f...