This is the charming (and true!) account of the correspondence between an American woman and the staff of a British bookshop, which I heard ...

I read Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner , in February 2005. (Pretty sharp memory for a literary amnesiac, eh? Well, it helps when...

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give bi...

Between the siren song of my garden during this beautiful spring weather, and unexpectedly finding the wind knocked out of me more than once...

Dictionary Day! It's back by popular demand. (Not really, but I've had some words lying around waiting for me to look them up and I ...

Neil Gaiman is sick and twisted and I love it. I've wanted to read this book ever since I watched the flippin' WEIRD Tim Burton-es...

Eight months, eight book club meetings, eight books. We finally found one that we all liked! Everything about this one was great--the writin...

You think you don't know Richard Adams, but YOU DO. You've read Watership Down , right? And that was by . . . (I'll wait for it)...

My experience with Gregory Maguire has been somewhat hit-or-miss, but as it's been more hit than miss, I was happy to give What-the-Dick...

"I am haunted by humans." --Death I've been curious about this book for quite some time. I first noticed it in the book sect...

So, Stendhal. A one-named personage bears the expectation that he's sufficiently famous to be recognized by that single name, yet I'...

This is one of the books I picked up at Goodwill  last month. It's a posthumous collection of quotes by Fred Rogers (who, as any true Am...