As I finished this book and put it down, my exact words to myself were, "Well, that was weird."  I didn't like Nicotine  anywh...

I can't believe I spent seventeen dollars on this book. Not that there's inherently anything wrong with the book itself. But it'...

I tagged along to a bookstore with a friend, not intending to buy anything. (Yeah, right. Like that's ever going to happen! I should hav...

Books like these are unfair to all the other books.  I wish I hadn't done this, but I didn't blog about either of these books right ...

This is, I think, my first Wolitzer, although I've had The Interestings waiting in the wings since we first came across it at Emerald I...

Here's a book that caught my eye at Half Price Books, mainly because I recognized the author's name; I read his Tomcat in Love-- wow...

What this book is not: how to back away from the feeling that you always have to be getting something accomplished, how to meditate, or how ...

This book was a very thoughtful anniversary gift to me from Sam. Have I ever told you how much I love the Chronicles of Narnia? Well, even i...

I like to come to a book with a blank slate: no preconceived notions, no spoilers, no expectations. That statement is completely true. But i...

Here's a book that caught my eye at (can you guess?) Half Price Books. I'd never heard of it before, or its author, and at this poin...

It has never benefitted me to put off writing about the books I read. This time was no exception. I finished reading Dream House several da...

Have I come to expect too much of my favorite authors? First Geraldine Brooks, and now Ann Patchett. Up until now, I have really loved every...