After reading and loving Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow , Sam and I both were interested in reading more Zevin. Sam went with AJ Fikry ...

Well, Sam was right-- The Guest  was better than The Girls , and I was right too--I should have read The Girls  first. I think I would have ...

What's this? Another cookbook blog post?  I promise I am not trying to turn this into a cooking blog. It is, and always will be, a read...

Sam said I wouldn’t like this book. He said it was terrible and he didn't recommend it. But I decided to read it anyway. (Because it was...

For a long time I have harbored a fantasy of finding a baby in a box. (In my dreams it's a live one. Let's not talk about my nightma...

This is the kind of book I usually hate. I mean, if I hadn't already read a book of short stories by this author that I really liked , a...

If you were cynical, and you were reading a book about a priest who was one of the people in charge of a school for wayward boys, would you ...

Any time a book I read completely absorbs me, the book that follows is going to suffer in comparison. And there's no doubt that's wh...

Is it almost a cliché to read an Emma Cline book at this point? I feel a little behind the times. I let Sam pick my next read, and this was ...

This was Ann Patchett's very first novel. It was published while I was in college, though I wouldn't even become aware of it until y...

Everybody is talking about this book.  That's exactly what the emailed newsletter from Strand in NYC said, so how could I not buy this b...

I had a really annoying conversation about climate change with my parents over Christmas, where I felt sure my parents were wrong but I didn...