Unshelved recently posted a cartoon that summed up many of the regrets re-readers have when they […]
Book snobbery; Or, we can be our own worst enemies
I’m not even a fifth of the way through Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and I’ve already […]
3,000 ways to drive a reader nuts
There comes a point in every reader’s life where they realize that they won’t be […]
Change the narrator, change the story
I have read so many books in the past month in which a male(ish) narrator […]
Arguing with critics…in my head
I’ve been reading Terry Eagleton’s How to Read Literature along with the students of the class […]
Authors don’t get mulligans
At the beginning of the year, The New York Times reported in a brief article […]
The five stages of book prize grief
Every year, when the Nobel Prize for literature is awarded, the book world erupts. Readers […]
Sharing the love
Earlier this week, I griped about the difficulty in finding bookish sites that catered to […]
The difference between literary criticism and what I do
By Loui Jover Finding a good book site is harder than finding a good book […]
Judgment standards; Or, one yardstick to rule them all?
“You can’t evaluate a work outside the context of its time.”“You can if it’s good.” […]