I found this book really depressing and I’m failing to see any redeeming qualities in it. I don’t mean that it was terribly written, or that...

This book took me more than a decade to read.  No, really. It wasn’t the book itself that was the problem (or at least that’s mostly true); ...

The Last Supper  is a summer-long memoir of a three-month visit to Italy. This book called to me for two reasons. One, I’m a sucker for read...

Case Closed was first published in 1993, but I only recently heard about it from an interview with Gerald Posner on one of the older episod...

Now, was that really necessary? Despite the fact that the note at the beginning of Nobody Wants Your Sh*t assured me that it wouldn’t just ...

It’s been almost ten years since Marie Kondo both baffled and inspired me, but during that time I’m sure I’ve accumulated way more stuff th...

Reading this book was a slightly surreal experience. I think that no matter what, I would have had the same response as I turned the last pa...

I really loved this book. I hadn’t known at all what to expect from it. Some unknown amount of time ago, for some unremembered reason, I’d n...

I really enjoyed this book, which coincidentally also took place in New York City, just like the last book I read .  This is a memoir about ...

I wish I could remember how I heard about this book. I was thinking it must have been in Oh Reader magazine, but I flipped back through the ...

My daughter (formerly known as Bookworm Child, though she is now no longer a child) gave me a great experience for my birthday: she ordered ...

My lovely husband gave me this beautiful book as a birthday gift. He knows me so well. If not a novel, this is exactly the sort of book that...