Thanksgiving hadn’t even come & gone when a referb’d Amazon box arrived addressed to me. The return address was unfamiliar, but bore the auspicious “SS” […] Read More
While WG Sebald’s Austerlitz won’t be among the top five favorite reads of 2010, it will be among the top books that I’m glad I read. Using stream-of-consciousness narrative, Austerlitz is the title character’s story as he tells it to an unnamed, first-person recorder. And while this style isn’t my favorite, it is profoundly appropriate in this instance.
Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book is like a beautifully wrapped gift.
Approximately 500 girls age 14 or younger are raped for profit every month in Atlanta. This is one of the facts that, according to Brandon […] Read More
If you’re a fan of Gothic literature, be sure to pick up Kate Morton’s The Distant Hours. It could have been used to teach my college class on the genre.
As soon as I read the first line of Elizabeth Strout’s Amy and Isabelle, I knew I had been here before. But, the familiar sense was inviting so I kept reading, and the revisit was well worth it.
Because I’m so far behind, I’m going to take advantage of the fact that two of the reviews I need to write are by the […] Read More
If you’re a fan of Harry Potter, you probably will love (and may already know about) Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. When I picked it […] Read More
September was pretty dismal, at least for Babbette’s Book Blog. I look to my side bar & see that I only had four posts. I […] Read More
September 25 to October 2 is Banned Books Week, an event sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the American American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, […] Read More