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Since February has Valentine’s Day and the birthdays of two of my three daughters, I’m going to switch from lust to love this month. Rather than list the books I am lusting after, I’m going to list a few of those I loved enough to now have waiting on the headboard of the bed or […]
Ever since I’ve been a member of the National Book Critics Circle, I’ve observed that few of the books I nominate make the finalist round (two last year and one the year before). I kept up that trend with this year’s finalists.
I only submitted nominations in three categories because, as usual, I didn’t read […]
As part of an ongoing series, the U.K.’s Guardian has listed, by author’s last name, the 124 science fiction and fantasy novels everyone “must” read. I’ll admit there’s some I’ve never heard of (mostly published 80 or more years ago) and some that surprise me as coming within the category.
Anyway, John at SF Signal […]
How did you react to assigned reading when you were in school/university/college/etc? How do you think on these books now? What book were you ‘forced’ to read when you where in school that you’ve since reread and loved?
I still blame/credit high school English for the fact I can’t tolerate Shakespeare. Of course, at […]
There’s some great news in the latest reading study by the National Endowment for the Arts. “For the first time in the history of the survey — conducted five times since 1982 — the overall adult literary reading rate has risen (from 46.7 percent in 2002 to 50.2 percent in 2008).” It isn’t all necessarily […]
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