I've mentioned Modern General in Santa Fe before, but it's worth mentioning again. It's a kind of cafe (though I've never ea...

I usually tend to stay away from ARCs, just as I stay away from self-published novels, for two reasons: one, I prefer to let publishing comp...

Yep, it’s official. I like Sloane Crosley’s essays more than I like her novels.   The Clasp  is the story of Victor, Kezia and Nathaniel, co...

I can’t sleep. This is not a frequent occurrence for me, but after lying in bed in the dark for a while, trying to be still and quiet and wi...

This is the book that the Internet presented to me when I searched for the non-existent Designing With Books . I expected a book full of dro...

Just got out my List of Favorite Authors and realized Lily King did not appear on it. So, she does now! Squeezed in at #6 between Rachel Cus...

Here's one of the two books I mentioned in my last post. It didn't quite turn out to be what I expected. I guess I would have known ...

After a brief foray into Sloane Crosley's novel-writing, I'm back to her essays, which is where I started (with I Was Told There...

Weekend before last, we had the opportunity to go to a cute little bookshop in Atlanta's Ponce City Market: Posman Books. I guess there ...

I haven't read all of Ian McEwan's books, and he has written quite a few of them (like, enough that I may not get around to reading ...

I’ve already read three different books by Sloane Crosley (two books of short stories that I assumed were autobiographical, but I could be ...

Oops... I did it again.  I don't even remember when I finished reading this book, but it was probably close to two weeks ago. I had inte...