Books

Talking with Gabrielle Hamilton: Cooking, Storytelling and Guerilla Writing

February 25, 2013

This Saturday morning, a little too early for my taste, I sat at a table at the library behind a pile…

February 7, 2013

It’s easy to describe a book as a coming of age story just because a character is young and learning something…

January 31, 2013

News broke this week that Barnes and Noble is closing a third of their brick-and-mortar stores. I know the idea of…

January 28, 2013

Here’s what happens in Warm Bodies, more or less: A zombie named R falls in love with a human girl, and…

December 19, 2012

So, here's the thing: In the fight to keep people reading, and to make sure there continue to be good books…

November 19, 2012

Ready for some news that will brighten your Monday? Now you can have your eBooks and your locally supported bookshop, too!…

October 10, 2012

A few days ago, one of my favorite local bloggers (and customers), Javacia Harris Bowser, asked me to answer a few…

October 7, 2012

I've been reading a lot of long, emotionally heavy books lately, plus I've been kind of overloaded with work stuff (a…

September 27, 2012

At first, I didn’t understand what she was doing. A few chapters into J.K. Rowling’s first post-Potter book, and I was…

September 24, 2012

When the first book in a series does really well, everyone gets excited. Publishers and booksellers love it, because it means…