Check it out! I've read a book in French! (Did it take me almost six years? Yes. Yes, I literally started reading this book in 2019. Thi...

The day I’m too old for children’s books will be a very dark day indeed.  So says the surprising Minotaur at the center of the labyrinth. An...

So get this. My 12-year-old baby read this book in school last month, then decided I needed a copy of my own to read. He conspired with Sam ...

It's strange how memory works (or doesn’t). Sam read this book years and years ago, and he loved it. Then, a while back, we bought a cop...

Cheese, Wine, and Bread is part travelogue, part memoir, and part exploration of the most delicious of human creations, with a few recipes s...

Another one moves from the "I'd Like To Read All Of Her Books" group to the "I've Read All Of Her Books" group! ...

I found this book really depressing and I’m failing to see any redeeming qualities in it. I don’t mean that it was terribly written, or that...

This book took me more than a decade to read.  No, really. It wasn’t the book itself that was the problem (or at least that’s mostly true); ...

The Last Supper  is a summer-long memoir of a three-month visit to Italy. This book called to me for two reasons. One, I’m a sucker for read...

Case Closed was first published in 1993, but I only recently heard about it from an interview with Gerald Posner on one of the older episod...

Now, was that really necessary? Despite the fact that the note at the beginning of Nobody Wants Your Sh*t assured me that it wouldn’t just ...

It’s been almost ten years since Marie Kondo both baffled and inspired me, but during that time I’m sure I’ve accumulated way more stuff th...