Matthew Battles' Library: An Unquiet History W.W. Norton & Company, 2003 Welcome to my second bookish Friday. I've got notes that will take this theme halfway through July and I am thrilled; some of these are books I've meant to read for years, whereas others, like next Friday's choices, are
Nobody was waiting for Clare Clark's Savage Lands when I initially borrowed it from the library, having requested it weeks ahead when the Orange Prize longlist had been announced. So I was really surprised when it came time to renew it and I found that it had a hold queue,
Click Melissa Nucera's beautiful image for the Once Upon a Time Challenge Site For the past several Saturdays I have been writing about kidlit and the YA novels that Lizzie Skurnick's Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading inspired me to re-read. (I love re-reading, but
So, here's the thing. I'm reading like a fiend this year. And it's been making me a little crazy. Pleasantly crazy. But crazy all the same. And I look at the list of books I've read and I start to believe that spending every spare second reading is a balanced
What struck me about this challenge is connected with a question that an acquaintance asked me the other day: where do I find the books that I read. It's the kind of question that reminds me just how innate reading feels to me, whilst it's unfamiliar territory for a lot
