I was browsing Miss Snark‘s archives recently, as I am wont to do, and I cam across a reference to a store called Kate’s Paperie. Miss Snark often wrote of herself in the third person, and she said this: Miss Snark loves paper. Kate’s Paperie is one of her favorite places on earth. Crane and [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
The Face of The Earth
(Yes; I’ve fallen off it.) Things have been very, very busy lately and I haven’t had time to blog — in fact, I realized this morning that I hadn’t read a book for pleasure for two or three weeks. No wonder I’ve felt so off-kilter; I am now ripping through Possession and I feel much [...]
Review: An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
This book: it’s good! I mean, that’s not a huge surprise, I really liked John Green’s other books and occasionally drop by his blog as well. Seems like a smart kind of dude. Writes good stuff. But I was still a little bit surprised that I liked this book so well. Here’s the thing: it [...]
No Arguments Here
What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You’re probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people’s grammatical mistakes make you insane. Dedicated Reader Literate Good Citizen Book Snob [...]
Review: Parenting, Inc. by Pamela Paul
This book is simultaneously encouraging and horrifying. Pamela Paul’s Parenting, Inc.: How We Are Sold on $800 Strollers, Fetal Education, Baby Sign Language, Sleeping Coaches, Toddler Couture, and Diaper Wipe Warmers — and What It Means for Our Children has a doozy of a title and also one heckuva message. I think I can sum [...]
Review: Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
Somewhere, somewhen, I have seen or heard Three Men in a Boat described as “the funniest book in the English language”, and I am not inclined to disagree. Very, very few books can actually make me laugh out loud — but here, I found something new to giggle at on almost every single page. It’s [...]
Review: Reconciliation, by Benazir Bhutto
This book, Reconciliation: Isalm, Democracy, and the West, came into my house via my brother — or via his friend Z, rather, who gave the book to my brother in hopes that he might read it. But I yoinked the book from him before such a thing could happen, and so far my brother hasn’t [...]
Best Books of 2008
Now that 2008 is officially over, it’s time to pick the best books of the year! Golly gum golly, it was quite the year of reading for me. Here follow my picks for the best books I read last year (not necessarily published last year), month-by-month. A note on the many, many links embedded here: [...]