I still think this is funny. Stories have made me feel happy, amused, sad, melancholy, […]
Oh the dilemma!
A few years back, I learned that Vladimir Nabokov’s heirs were going to publish one […]
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Book?
I learned, via the Jezebel grapevine, about a study published in PLoS One about using […]
Trust Issues
Baron Münchhausen Reading Jane Harris’ Gillespie and I got me thinking about one of my […]
Deja vu all over again
There are books that I regularly reread. I reread Christopher Moore’s Lamb around Easter, and […]
I don’t like poetry. Well, I like some. But mostly I don’t.
I taught my niece to say this. I pissed off an English professor once* when […]
Doomed! Doomed!
I love talking books with people. And because I work in a library, it tends […]
The revenge of the return of the son of the sequel
Jeff O’Neal wrote a great piece on BookRiot the other day about sequels that he […]
A genre by any other name would actually make a lot more sense
Even though literary fiction is not really a genre, we tend to talk about it […]
Why do I have to read this? Asked every student ever.
It’s been a project of mine, over the last year and bit, to read “the […]