“A Modest Proposal,” 1729 Because I have an overdeveloped sense of schadenfreude, I read Failbook. […]
The bogeyman
At the end of 2015, Bavarian publisher Eher Verlag’s copyright on Mein Kampf will expire. […]
Well-loved books
I have a confession to make. I dogear pages. I leave books open, pages down […]
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 […]
Autodidacts among us
There has been a flood of reading memoirs being published. There was Rachel Mead’s My […]
I like it, but I don’t approve
A little over a year ago, when I found the bookish corner of tumblr (my […]
Book blurbs; Or, you don’t have to take my word for it
This is an old story, but the idea of book blurbs has been on my […]
Trigger warnings or challenge lines?
Over the weekend, Jennifer Medina reported in The New York Times that a petition is […]
Woefully underrated authors
Several of the book sites and podcasts I follow have been talking about under-the-radar books […]