The Twilight Saga, by Stephenie Meyer

Here’s a note before I begin – I’m writing this review as if you’ve read the books. Because I have come to realize that people read these books, and then search...

Life on the Refrigerator Door, by Alice Kuipers

It took me longer to drive to the library, peruse the shelves, check out my books, drive home and unload than it did to read this book.  Seriously.  Which isn’t an altogether bad...

Book Review: Austenland, by Shannon Hale

I read this book in one sitting, as I often do with any book by Hale.  That’s not meant to imply her writing is simple or her plots are shallow.  I just always find with...

Book Review: What-the-Dickens, by Gregory Maguire

By and large, I’m a fan of Maguire.  I appreciate how he has made a career out of turning well-known stories on their collective heads.  He continues that run – to an extent...

Book Review: The Know It-All, by A.J. Jacobs

  A.J. Jacobs works as the editor at large at Esquire magazine and has carved his personal niche at becoming what he calls “a human guinea pig.”  I would love to be...

So Here's What Happened

Do you ever look at your mountainous pile of library books and decide – FINALLY – on which one to read, only to have one of the others tempt and taunt you until you ultimately...

Book Review: A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray

I will confess this now:  my opinion of Libba Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty is totally and completely based on personal feelings and preferences, much moreso than an objective...

Book Review: An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke

An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke has all the makings of a classic Coen Brothers screenplay:  “the drama of a Greek tragedy, flashes of...