Ford Madox Ford’s 1915 novella The Good Soldier famously begins with the line, “This is the saddest […]
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor, has been sitting on my bedside table […]
Silent Witnesses, by Nigel McCrery
Continuing my odd streak of reading nonfiction books, I finished Nigel McCrery’s Silent Witnesses: A […]
Why I review; Or, Will blog for books (within reason)
At the end of May, Michele Jacobsen over at A Reader’s Respite wrote about Crown […]
The Black Hour, by Lori Rader-Day
Earlier today, I tweeted that I’m still not sure whether or not I liked The […]
The Buried Life, by Carrie Patel
The city of Ricoletta is built mostly underground. Few dare to venture above ground, even […]
Reflections on reading non-fiction
I feel smarter already. Reading non-fiction is out of character (‘scuze the pun) for me. […]
Unruly Places, by Alastair Bonnett
Years ago, I read a strange travel memoir by Daniel Kalder, Lost Cosmonaut, which sparked […]
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
“Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much” (p. 1*). This is Michael Pollan’s philosophy of […]
Autodidacts among us
There has been a flood of reading memoirs being published. There was Rachel Mead’s My […]