Love the McNally Jackson blog — even though one of the most awesome bookstores just HAS to be in NYC. By the way, this is the first book on my Summer 2012 reading list, unofficially. There is nothing I love more than a) Stephen King and b) the Dark Tower series.

It makes me kind of sad. I like keeping up with the Pulitzer’s fiction list, as it always gives me new reading fodder. I guess 2012-13 is a catch-up year. Not Since 1977: No Putlizer Awarded for Fiction The books start arriving at the end of June, and over the course of the next six [...]

And it was good! I don’t normally talk about movies here because I’m not really sure how. But since The Hunger Games is a book, and I have read it (in fact, it was one of the first books I reviewed here), I thought: why not? You know, there was a lot of hubbub over this [...]

Love this essay from Dwight Garner, a book critic for the New York Times: The Way We Read Now. I kind of have a hate-distrust-distain relationship with any form of e-readers, but this is a particularly (and balanced) perspective on everything from Kindles to reading on our smartphones. My favorite quotes: The one bit of [...]

I meant to re-blog this earlier but then it blew up everywhere. So. I’m late. Whatever, still hilarious. And really, really nerdy. These ladies and I have the same tastes in books.

Hmm, so this is a book blog, remember? Maybe I should blog about books every once in awhile. Um, let me see if I remember how to do this. Oh, so this came up this week: Teacher’s Job in Jeopardy for Reading to Kids from Enders Game. According to the mother who filed the complaint [...]