: book titles are misleading :
Don’t believe everything you read is such a common caveat it’s achieved cliché status. People do, though. They fall for preposterous claims regularly. How else…
: does this happen to you? :
Do inert, lifeless things accost you in public? Those sons of guns buttonhole me all the goddamn time and I’m getting tired of it. Yesterday a book…
: a review of the review :
Sundays are opportunities for adventure. The perfect excuse to do whatever whenever: stay in pajamas, go for brunch, hide out at the movies, haunt bookstores, all…
: hot off the presses :
Hot and freaking ginormous. City on Fire, the much-ballyhooed novel by Garth Risk Hallberg, is 944-pages long. A thumping doorstop. It contains 94 chapters, plus a…
: the promiscuous reader :
Don’t judge. There’s nothing wrong with wanton, indiscriminate reading. It’s absolutely proper and should be encouraged. Libraries do, they’re huge advocates of gratuitous reading. In this…
: now they’re waterproof :
Books are lovely, don’t you think? Delightful treasures we keep forever or, on occasion, write heartfelt dedications in and give as gifts. Those gifts become someone…
