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In 1943 Italian chemist Primo Levi, a Jew, was captured by the Fascist Militia and eventually transported to Auschwitz in 1944, where he som...

I am not following the current path of many of my colleagues in the book blogosphere, reading only books from my existing TBR pile for a des...

I had only ever heard of Irish novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture, which I assumed (wrongly) to be some sort...

At the tail-end of 2008, our late book blogging friend, Dewey, introduced me to YA author John Green and his Paper Towns , which was delight...

In the opening chapter of Wendy Moffat's A Great Unrecorded History , her new biography of writer E. M. Forster, John Lehmann influe...

Friend Sheila enthusiastically recommended Seamus Deane's 1996 novel of growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 50s, Reading in...

Russian neuropsychologist A. R. Luria's books might be considered the prototype for Oliver Sacks's. Sacks is a neurologist rather t...

Com Toibin's 1996 The Story of the Night is a multi-strand coming-of-age novel. In it, Richard, a young gay man in 1980s Buenos Aires c...

I'm really glad that I won a copy of Maile Chapman's Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto from Michelle because, if it had been a...

Now a tradition (although I had to be reminded by Pete ), the first lines of the first post of each month in 2010... January Typically, the ...

And finally... I have read 37 novels, novellas, or collections of stories written for adult readers in 2010, the bulk of my pleasu...

Delightful Thomas at My Porch posted this, so I have promptly stolen it and altered to suit my needs (appropriation is one of the sincerest...

I hope everyone who celebrates christmas had a good one. Next year end list: books for young readers (YA fiction), a category I enjoy, but...

David Albahari's Leeches came to me courtesy of Houghton Mifflin (thanks!) and is not due out until next April. It is a feverish and f...

I will begin the list madness with my non-fiction reads for 2010. I read quite a bit of non-fiction this year. I have read 51 books so fa...

Since I'm not quite done with David Albahari's Leeches and I'm not quite ready for my list madness to begin, I think I'll d...

It has been so long since I have done a post about what I'm looking forward to reading. 'Tis the season when I have a little more t...