This is a short story bound in hardcover. Sam and I both really enjoyed reading Clarke's  Piranesi  and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel...

So, two memoirs in a row, eh? Imagine my surprise when, in the epilogue of this second one, I discovered that it, too, had started as a Mode...

"The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere. He wanted it, he wa...

We enjoyed a quick trip to Boston last weekend, where we spent a lovely Sunday morning in Trident Booksellers (where you should totally go, ...

I'm done with the Slow Horses series now. No, really, done with the series. I've finished reading the last book in our boxed set an...

"Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid." While I find humor in that (under)statement, my assumption...

Can a terrible book really be a terrible book if you just CAN'T STOP READING IT?? When I first started reading this book, it wasn't ...

For anyone who has tired of vacations that involve relaxation on a beach with a novel (which is not me, yet!), this book is full of ideas fo...

Prepare to be impressed. Rather than spending six years on my second book in French, it only took me just over six months to read this one! ...

I quickly and happily made it through last month's impulse buy, which definitely made me wish I could go back to London someday. I alrea...

Finished this, the second to last book in the boxed set that we have, about a week ago. Then discovered just now: a ninth book in the series...

Still enjoying the Slow Horses book series, if enjoying blogging about them a bit less (as evidenced by the fact that I finished this one lo...