This was an intriguing little novella that just flew by. It felt like I'd only been reading for about five minutes when I noticed that I...

This is a really hard blog post for me to write. It would have been hard anyway, for two reasons, but unfortunately it's made even more ...

I JUST REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK. I never wanted it to end, I was enjoying it so much. It was almost like a guilty pleasure, but I just could...

Sam read this book first, told me it was quite good, and put it on my pile of books in the Reading Room. (Speaking of which, my system has b...

I spent most of this book not enjoying myself. Which is odd, because (as I'm sure I've mentioned before) I really like Ann Patchett...

My Phantoms  is narrated by Bridget, but we don't learn much about her through the course of the book; rather, we are treated to an inte...

I really enjoyed this creepy little story. I think it would lend itself well to a creepy little movie, which is not surprising as Susan Hill...

I am proud of myself for having read something by Virginia Woolf. (Now you know that I am not afraid.) However, I do not think I am interest...

Sam suggested that I should read something I knew I would enjoy for my birthday weekend. I think he meant that I should re-read something I ...

  I feel I'm at a loss for words over this gritty, quirky, dark story told from the point of view of Edie, a young black woman in New Yo...

I had two main purposes in reading this book. First, to discover what the Green New Deal actually comprises (because all I really knew up un...

The Night Tige r is a story of weretigers, Confucian virtues and murder in 1930s Malaysia. It is told from two points of view: that of Ren, ...