Back in May 2016, I wrote a post that rounded up the things that instantly […]
In Praise of…Footnotes
I can’t remember when I first read Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman*, but […]
A Story-Telling Fail
When I visited Phoenix over Christmas, there was only one thing my four-year-old niece wanted […]
A Reader Resolves!
Last year, I decided to skip reading resolutions. The year before, I was going through […]
Uncollected Thoughts on Eleven Years of the Kindle
It’s not a special anniversary, but LitHub recently posted in one of their daily news […]
Angry Books in an Angry Time
Like a lot of other Americans, I am angry. Like a lot of liberal Americans, […]
Shut Up and Listen; Or, Having Bookish Guts
There are books that I describe as “deserve to be widely read.” I hate to […]
Diamonds in the Rough; Or, Finding Great Reads in Generic Dross
A fellow bookish blogger, Smithereens, asked me a question about whether or not you should […]
A Bookish Confession
Ariel Zeitlin recently posted for Reader’s Digest a list of 10 books* people lie about reading. […]
A Bookish Buddhist Koan
Even though the proverb, “No man crosses the same river twice,” is attributed to Heraclitus, […]