One of the latest things buzzing around the book world on the internet is this infographic from Goodreads that sums up why people don’t finish reading books. Interestingly, it also demonstrates that a whole lot of people do, in fact, finish books. … [Read more...]
Summer begins with a stack of books
June 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I haven’t taught a class since the last part of April, but it still hasn’t felt like summer. Something was missing. It wasn’t the hot weather; we’ve had plenty of that. It wasn’t the absence of a graduation ceremony; those have been happening all … [Read more...]
Book Preview: Eleanor and Park
January 19, 2013 By 4 Comments
I love this book, and what a relief it is to be able to say that again. I’ve been in something of reading drought, and this book was like a little oasis. I love this book for the title (it sounds like an intersection, as in “Meet me at the corner … [Read more...]
Top Fiction Books of 2012
December 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
My 2012 fiction reading year started off strong. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that my good reading year of 2011 carried over a bit. For the first 3-4 months I was tearing through books, on track to do better than the 120 books I read last … [Read more...]
Why I’m reading Great Expectations
December 15, 2012 By 3 Comments
- Mostly because the only other Dickens I’ve ever read was A Tale of Two Cities in high school, and that just doesn’t seem right. - Because not having read Great Expectations constitutes a serious gap in one’s cultural literacy. I know that Pip … [Read more...]
Book Review: Morningside Heights
November 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It’s been a while, but today, a real honest to goodness book review. My friend recommended and loaned me this novel by Cheryl Mendelson, set in, not surprisingly, Morningside Heights, a neighborhood on Manhattan’s Upper West Side close to Columbia … [Read more...]
Mystery Book Review: Still Life
September 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump in the month of September so far, so thank goodness for my friend recommending Louise Penny to me. I just finished the first in her Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, Still Life.These mysteries take place in … [Read more...]
Supernatural Book Review: The Monstrumologist and Two Sarah Waters’ Novels
August 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been on something of a supernatural reading kick lately. It started with The Curse of the Wendigo, the second book in Rick Yancey’s Monstrumologist Series, progressed to the second book in the All Souls Trilogy, Shadow of Night, and then … [Read more...]
Imagining a different kind of vampire story and a review of Shadow of Night
August 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Finally, a book review. Kind of. I just finished the second novel in Deborah Harkness’ All Souls Trilogy, Shadow of Night. This is the sequel to A Discovery of Witches, which I have to confess, I could not actually finish. But my friend brought … [Read more...]
Telegraph Avenue Read Along: The big finale…
July 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
...kind of. Finale, yes. Big, I don’t know.I first of all want to thank Emily at As the Crowe Flies (And Reads!) for organizing this spectacular read-along and sending us all advance copies of this wonderful novel. You have one month still left to … [Read more...]
