My twitter review, I think, pretty well sums it up ( Read more... )

This is a children's chapter book by noted children's author William Steig. It's still in print, although the copy I read is pretty old. ("How old is it?") Well, it's so old it doesn't have an ISBN number. Just a Library of Congress catalog number. It was my wife's copy when she was a kid, and she recently dragged it out because she thought ( Read more... )

Last night I finished Lamplighter, book 2 in D.M. Cornish's "Monster Blood Tattoo" series ( Read more... )

I was in the bookstore the other day, and on my way out, Miracle Ball, by Brian Biegel jumped off of one of the sale tables and into my hands. This is a non-fiction mystery. A real-life sleuthing story about one man's search for the home-run ball Bobby Thompson hit in the bottom of the 9th inning of the 1951 National League Championship series ( Read more... )

After much encouragement by my wife ("you'll love it!"), who loved it, and her mom, who loved it, and her best friend, who loved it, I finally picked up The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger ( Read more... )

The book's full title is Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 1), but that's kind of a mouthful ( Read more... )

No, I'm not turning into a Barbara Kingsolver junkie, it just so happened that I found a copy of The Bean Trees lying around the house right as I was finishing Prodigal Summer, and thought it would be interesting to compare the two ( Read more... )

Prodigal Summer was another one of the books I got at Christmas, after I told my wife that what I really wanted were good books to read ( Read more... )

On the heels of my last book review of "The Book Thief", with Death as the narrator comes this review of Christopher Moore's A Dirty Job, which has death as the main character ( Read more... )

Last night I finished Markus Zusak's The Book ThiefWierd sort of rollercoaster of expectations in this book ( Read more... )