Erin Barnett asked other librarians about whether or not we lend books to people. It […]
Moon Brow, by Shahriar Mandanipour
The Qur’an has mentions two angels that record a person’s life, the kiraman katibin. One angel, […]
Curb Your Characters; Or, I Take Issue with Truman Capote
An author I follow on Twitter posted the following quote and I immediately wanted to […]
Bride and Groom, by Alisa Ganieva
There are some places in the world where it seems, for all the advances in […]
The Aviator, by Eugene Vodolazkin
Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up in a hospital at the beginning of The Aviator, by Eugene […]
The Wooden King, by Thomas McConnell
I have read books set during World War II written from the perspective of Holocaust […]
This week on the bookish internet
Janet Frishberg explains how she came to give herself permission to give up on books. […]
All the Perverse Angels, by Sarah K. Marr
A cottage in the Cotswolds seems like the perfect place for Anna to recuperate from […]
The Man Who Died, by Antti Tuomainen
Jaakko Kaunismaa is having the worst day of this life. At the beginning of The Man […]