Join us over on the Barnes and Noble Book Clubs "Literature by Women" forum as we read and discuss Betty Smith's A Tree Grows...

"Trooooooooollllllllll!!!!!!!!" Yeah, Stellan Skarsgard running around on a rock as Hrothgar trying to lure out Grendel.  Pretty...

Howard Zinn died this week .  Howard Zinn is responsible for writing the second "grouchy" book I ever read - A People's Histor...

Elizabeth I remains one of the iconic figures of British history - the clothes, the china-white skin, the refusal/inability to marry, the ev...

Back in November Rebecca Skloot put out a tweet asking for readers/reviewers to contact her if they were interested in a book on the philos...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! Just do the following: - Grab yo...

Remember my minor Alison Weir obsession last year? It's back - still going strong and able to keep me up reading late.  The next entry...

Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak was on the schedule for January as the first book of the new year for our little bookseller bookclub.  I...

After snivelling all morning over Harry Potter dying in World War I (see review of My Boy Jack ) I took myself to the movie theatre for a g...

I missed My Boy Jack when it was on PBS (boo) and quickly added it to my Netflix queue.  I'd heard good things about the film (Carey Mu...

Bookspotting's been pretty thin since Mother Nature decided we should get a taste of temperatures best suited for latitudes north of the...

Now that we're into the dull gray January/February days it's hard to remember that the green of spring is coming. Particularly fo...