I enjoyed this book very much, but confess that the window during which I was most likely to write a review had passed. But today it’s due back at the library, and I picked it up and looked at the many passages I had meticulously flagged and thought, … [Read more...]

I like this coverA few weeks ago I wrote about the certain specificity of not liking a book compared to the fuzzy amorphism of liking a book. When I don’t like a book, I can tell you exactly why, but when I like one, I’m often not quite sure what to … [Read more...]

Here in southern Indiana, we’ve reached that moment in the semester where you simply cannot believe that you still have to go in and teach classes for yet another week. Surely it is time to be done. This last week will thankfully not be too hectic … [Read more...]

Do you ever read a book and like it very much but can’t quite figure out why? Disliking a book is easy. Most of the time I know with immediate certainty what I don’t like about a book. The stronger the dislike, the more specifically I’m able to … [Read more...]

This week’s Top Ten list from The Broke and the Bookish is so easy that I could not resist. They ask you to list the top ten books collecting dust on your shelves. The ones that have been there forever, but you just have not gotten around to reading. … [Read more...]

...of your comfort zone. That’s the topic for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the good folks at The Broke and the Bookish. You can play along by clicking here, and then telling us all about the top ten books you read that were outside of your … [Read more...]

It’s officially fall in southern Indiana. The trees were slow in getting started at changing, but the ones that still have leaves on them are doing their best. There’s one tree in particular on my drive to work that looks so brightly lit that it’s … [Read more...]

It’s been a good reading week. Two books that have been burning a hole on my to-read list finished. First, You Know When the Men Are Gone, reviewed here. And now, Hannah Pittard’s The Fates Will Find Their Way.Like Fallon’s collection of short … [Read more...]

You Know When the Men Are Gone is a collection of short stories by Siobhan Fallon about this generation of army families and their particular war. The stories take place mostly in Fort Hood, Texas, on the army base, and on the streets of Iraq where … [Read more...]