Get read for the massive "hours read" total....drum roll....three. Yup, a rather poor showing.  I just couldn't scrape up...

One of my favorite television channels is BBC America. I haven't watched it in years because I refuse to pay extortionate fees for hun...

Hurray!  Dewey's Readathon is Saturday, October 9, starting at 7am (I live in Chicago's timezone, all start times are based off ...

What if a single room and its contents were your entire world, the only thing you had ever known?  Only a television and the occasional ...

Karen Cushman's The Midwife's Apprentice was published in 1995, winning the Newbery Medal in 1996 (the same year I finished high sc...

Huzzah!  I did it! I finished the Women Unbound Reading Challenge.  For this challenge I had to read at least eight books (at least thre...

As my last selection for the Women Unbound Challenge, I decided to read a book I had parked on my bookshelves for quite some time: Laurel Th...

I do. So sue me.*  And I am proud to do so!  Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses is my current staff pick at the store - come to the d...

Meet one of the banned/challenged books that makes me go - why? (Don't get me started on what I think of people who object to Winnie-the...

                                 Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, n...

Scene: Lazy afternoon in our family room around my freshman year of high school.  I am sprawled all over the couch reading a book.  My mom w...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was a hard book for me to read when I was a teenager.  Not vocabulary-wise, but understanding-wise.  I am ...