Well, that was charming, if ultimately kind of hollow. I picked this book up at an airport bookstore on my way home from visiting my parents...

I've wanted to read this book since the year 2000.  One of my roommates my sophomore year of college read it for a class and said she ...

This week's prompt from The Broke and the Bookish is "Top Ten Underrated/Hidden Gem Books We've Read In The Past Year Or So....

I have a head cold.  Not a terrible one, but still, enough to make me want to sit and rest a lot these last couple of days.  Cowboy had toda...

I can't believe I hadn't read this before now. I mean, I spent like 20 years trying to find  the 1944 movie version after seein...

I'm not entirely sure how to talk about this book.  I finished reading it almost two whole weeks ago, and every time I thought, "Oh...

Shall I make a shocking confession?  Until this week, I had only read one book by John Steinbeck.  I read Of Mice and Men  in high school.  ...

Some of you, having read the book title at the head of this post, may have been horribly aghast that someone whose blog you read would eve...

If I needed to sum up this story and these characters in one word, it would be 'desire.'  If I were permitted two words, I would a...

This is not a happy book.  I didn't like it very well.  I found it quite depressing, to be honest.  I'm not saying it's a bad...

This is one of those books that make me want to give up writing in despair of ever creating anything that comes close to this kind of mast...

I read this once before, probably about ten years ago, when I'd been out of college a couple of years and was catching up on all the t...

Isn’t it interesting what will get someone to read a book? We all have things that automatically interest us in a book. One of mine is th...

I did not like this book, even though it made me laugh.  And I almost always like books that make me laugh, so this is something of a rari...

Oh bother.  I'm afraid I didn't like this book very well at all.  Much of the writing was quite brilliant, of course, but it depr...

I recently read Death Qualified by Kate Wilhelm and Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd. They're rather different books, but they...

I got about 120 pages into this book, then realized that for three days running, I'd chosen to read Potty Training in Less Than a Day ...