This certainly wasn't the most amazing book I've ever read. I could pick apart the characters (which were flat and uninteresting--...

I've read an embarrassingly small number of Hemingway's works. If I remember right, I haven't gotten beyond A Farewell to Arms...

Shortest blog post ever: When I first heard about The History of History , I told my husband it sounded like "our kind of book....

I finished reading this on a plane ride. During the same trip, I watched the movie  Boyhood . I mention this fact because the two narratives...

I'm in the habit of reading books cover-to-cover, beginning to end, including all quotes and introductions preceding the actual text. ...

My feelings about this one changed as I was reading it, from weary cynicism to excited wonder. I can't remember how I first heard about ...

I don't know why I'm hesitating to say I loved this book. Maybe it's the fact that my copy was endorsed by Oprah's Book Cl...

You know that rule I made for myself in order to keep my blog current and avoid a backlog? The one where I can't start reading a new boo...

I saw the Hitchcock movie of this book (and loved it) years and years ago, without even realizing it was based on a novel. Then, much more r...

This is the third historical novel I've read by Hilary Mantel. The first was her little-known novel about the French Revolution,  A Plac...

I ruined this book for myself by falling for unrealistically high expectations. It's touted as a Harry Potter-esque fantasy for adults...

I didn't mean to finish this book so quickly. I have a week off work for the holidays, time to relax and spend with family; I should h...