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Even More Books to Look For in 2012

I weary, gentle readers, of Anticipated Books of The Year lists that simply include big names and great cover design. ...

Museum of the Rapture: Douglas Coupland Wants Bits and Pieces of You

What is the intersection between you and not-you? Is your shirt you?  Your nail polish?  Your contact lenses?  Are your ...

Crossover Appeal #8

Crossover Appeal is a weekly feature that challenges the idea that you have to choose a side between YA and adult fiction. ...

The Not So Great Expectations Book Club

I have a friend, we’ll call her K, who used to work for the city newspaper. Like other newspapers, this ...

Reader Recommended Airplane Reads

In a previous post, I asked for help with airplane reading recommendations. Thanks to all of you stepped in with ...

Literary Missed Connections

Waiting in line at Burger King – m4w (Miami) You: Purple hair, multiple piercings. Me: Swarthy, long red coat. You said ...

Five More Books to Look For in 2012

In service of my unwritten resolution to start the year without feeling like I’m already behind the eight ball, I ...

Refreshing Children’s Books for Grown-Ups

One of the unexpected side effects of becoming a parent was that I ended up with 13,423 copies of Goodnight ...

Suck It, Tolstoy: I Read War and Peace

When I was a bit younger, I used to amuse my friends (and, more so, myself) by keeping day-long running ...

Five Books to Look For in 2012

I wanted to spend some time clearing my shelves of books that I had been meaning to read over the ...