On My Bookshelf...

Holly wrote a post a while back reacting to an NYT article that suggested that picture books are in decline. Well, my friend Gwyneth alert...

What an extraordinary first novel. Rebecca Hunt has taken an audacious, ambitious premise, and executed it in an insightful, rich way. W...

I was absolutely delighted when I received a box in the mail from Little Brown and Company! It had some fun stuff inside that I hope to revi...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your cu...

The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor: Set a potboiler in 1786 Cambridge, and it instantly has more credibility as literature than say, ...

Some of you may recall that I reviewed The Joy of Spooking: Unearthly Asylum. And then I disappeared from the face of the blog-world. ...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your cu...

I received Arctic Chill, the fifth book in Arnaldur Indridason's mystery series set in Iceland, featuring Inspector Erlendur, as a Libra...

I was in a car accident this week, and am therefore spending my free time car-shopping. With that in mind, I've extended the deadline f...

An interesting article on getting boys to read. Getting me to read was never my parents' problem; that would be getting me to stop! I...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your cu...

Sequels are tricky things, what with the balancing act of preserving what made the first book good while creating a fresh story. The more...

I have finally found a use for my long-neglected Twitter account. I often think I would post more often to this blog, but I never think my ...

Get ready....ahem...stepping up on soapbox now. Shelf Awareness published an article this morning discussing the decline of the traditional ...

I was so excited about this picture book when I opened its envelope! Doesn't the cover just make you want to look inside? My 8-month old...

Arctic Chill is the fifth in Indridason's Reykjavik Thriller series, but it is the first I've read. Before I had even finished re...

Lauren Myracle had a really good article posted on Shelf Awareness this morning. She discussed the issues behind two of her books and why t...

Unfortunately, this feature is becoming more of a monthly item. But I'm hoping as the school year gets underway that I have a bit more t...

Stork Raving Mad is the twelfth mystery in Donna Andrews's Meg Langslow series. Meg is eight months pregnant...with twins. But her h...

As I read Murder at Mansfield Park, I experienced the full range of emotional responses: I nearly flung the book across the room, I chuckl...