This is Chaucer.  Spam comments bore him.  They waste his mommy's time since she has to go delete them.  Dante also doesn...

We're setting the September through (about) February schedule at Literature by Women.  Here's the shortlist: Atkinson, Kate: Behin...

I had to replace the hard drive on my laptop ("The Precious") because the original was dying (oh, and the Geek Squad wanted to ...

I started reading Troubles when the shortlist for the "Lost" Man Booker Prize was announced in March.  The Siege of Krishnapur ...

So, I feel kinda like a heel.  I never read Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections ; I never read it because Oprah said she liked it and I r...

Beth Fish is spotlighting books from Harper Perennial!  You know, the HarperCollins imprint with the "olive" on the spine and ofte...

Today was the "A Day in the City of Literature" portion of the Iowa City Book Festival.  All different book discussions or book-re...

The Iowa City Book Festival was bigger and better this year!  This is what happens when your city is designated a UNESCO City of Literature...

A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos is a book I never heard of until I hunted down the list of Newbery Award winners for my project.  An i...

There are very few Beverly Cleary books I haven't read - Dear Mr. Henshaw is one of them.  I'm not quite sure why it never appealed...

To celebrate the occasion, I will be re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird because it's high time I did so.  I will also be reading Scout, A...

Isabel Wolff's new book, A Vintage Affair , is a nice book to read while lolling around on the beach (or, in my case, the porch swing). ...