I have to admit, I was pretty "meh" on the announcement of X-men: First Class .  After The Last Stand and Wolverine I just wasn...

Just a short note: I haven't read the Phillippa Gregory novel the movie is based on but I have read a good number of histories of the ...

Anne Bronte often seems like the "other" Bronte sister.  Not as prolific as Charlotte, not as sweepingly Romantic as Emily.  But w...

Soooo...I've just read four very long books, like almost 3500 pages, in about three weeks. I keep checking a television show website a...

I'll be writing about book four in a series, so be warned I'm going to spoil books one though three. Pretty sure my eyes bugged ou...

I'll be referring to events that have happened in book 1, A Game of Thrones , and book 2, A Clash of Kings , so you might want to skip t...

I'll be referring to events that have happened in book 1, A Game of Thrones , so you might want to skip this post if you don't want ...

In the fall of my senior year of high school I took a class called "Contemporary Literature" and it was the easiest class I've...

Now, everyone who knows me knows that I'm not a comic book geek.  I can appreciate the work and the artistry that goes into writing grap...

Three years after her oldest sister died of cancer, Nina Sankovitch began a reading project: she would read a book per day for one year.  Th...

I never had to read a Jane Austen for school.  At least, not on the first read.  My grandmother gave me an Illustrated Classics edition of P...

When I saw a list of new NYRB Classics  announcing the publicataion of Jean-Patrick Manchette's Fatale , I briefly didn't care wha...