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Finished! Aaah, great sigh of relief. Now back to high art and neuroscience (eww, I hope not entirely)! No plot spoilers, but I can't g...

Come on guys, Christmas is less than six months away. I'm less than 100 pages from the end of Harry P. I love books that inspire binge ...

I am just pages from finishing Veronica, which has proved great reading while provoking an interesting discussion here between two prodigio...

An East German boy, Stefan, falls in love with a beautiful actress. He has a history of posing as a poet in order to gain acceptance. He ...

This book was recommended by a colleague at school who thought I would like it - thanks, Sonia! I must admit, I probably would never have r...

Grandma's soup is no longer the only place I can put the words "hard boiled" with the words "matzoh ball." Michael ...

I've never read Hilary Mantel before and I found Beyond Black a smart, entertaining, provocative read. It is a blunt, funny story of a...

I finished Jose Saramago's All The Names, which I had posted on earlier , describing it as Gogol's Diary of a Madman meet Terry Gill...

I've heard quite a bit about Jose Saramago, especially his books Blindness and The Cave, from reading buddies. But when I went to the b...

By what scale should we take measure of how we've lived our lives? What we've acquired? The satisfaction with which we can look at...

The next time you're tempted to reduce American culture to bad television, Disney schlock, and Vegas, or to say that it is really an ama...

I am nearly done reading Bleak House now. It's amazing how quickly the final 400 pages of this novel reads. At this point the story ...

I continue to enjoy Dicken's Bleak House and it's made me think about how a writer sets the scene and how the readers uses it. A pic...

Jonah Lehrer over at The Frontal Cortex tells us that Proust was a Neuroscientist, or he will when his book comes out in November, so how a...

Let's play a game. I'm going to say a word and you tell me what your first thought is. Ready? "Surgeon." Did your mind...

My more recent full review of better can be found here . better is the second book by Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's H...

What a dramatist Dickens is. I just read two terrific chapters in Bleak House that I wanted to post on briefly. Dickens creates a marvelo...

I've begun Bleak House, actually I'm about half-way through, as the first book of my Summer Reading Challenge. I'm sort of re-re...