This one came from my local library, as it is a subject of some interest to me. I’ll let you know what I think! Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum. One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed “fertility crisis,” and whether modern… Read more
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is… Read more
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“The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.” – Prolific American authorTom Clancy Read more
I saw this on Reuters a while back, and I had to laugh. I always take my pony to the park with me to read! Read more
If you hang out here very often, you know that I love short stories. I think there is a real art to telling a story in just a few pages. In Lucky Alan: And Other Stories, Jonathan Lethem succeeds in a few stories – one or two stories stayed with me – but most left no impression. My favorite story by far… Read more
Interesting thing: I was at the post office, mailing a book to a friend (Beast – I’m so sorry! I should have sent it ages ago!) when I happened to mention that I love the media mail rate. (Instead of $12 to mail my book, it was only $3.) The postman gave me – and everyone else in line –… Read more
The Shakespeare Conspiracy (A Christopher Klewe Novel Book 1), by Jeffrey Hunter McQuain What makes a secret worth dying for? That’s what Christopher Klewe, a brash young professor from Virginia, finds out in Jeffrey Hunter McQuain’s new thriller “The Shakespeare Conspiracy” when he stumbles upon the most shocking cover-up in literary history. On a rainy Halloween at Washington’s Kennedy Center,… Read more
PEOPLE OF EARTH: DROP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND BUY THIS BOOK. I can’t tell you how much I loved this book. This is the sort of book that makes you bounce in your chair while you’re reading it. You know that little frisson of glee that you get as a reader when you know something really cool is about… Read more
“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.” – English author E. Nesbit They really aren’t the same, when you think about it. Sometimes I’m absorbed in the book; sometimes, the book is simply… Read more