The women of Riot Grrrl profiled in Sara Marcus's Girls to the Front are, on average, four to six years older than me.  They were start...

The Word Made Flesh is one of the those books that provides a few hours of happy browsing, flipping through pages, and admiring the art pre...

Readathon reading took a left turn due to my being waaay too tired to concentrate and I decided to soldier on with two new knitting books. ...

 I've been so busy I completely forgot to post about my Icarus shawl - I finished it in July! First, it got a sink bath in Eucala...

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...