Bookish Fiction

2014-03-09T15:08:04-04:00

Welcome to my third bookish Friday. Have I mentioned how much fun I'm having with Fridays now? It's not much of a stretch to assume that most people who are writing books are somewhat bookish themselves. But I don't think it's always true. I heard an interview with Katherine Neville

Bookish Fiction2014-03-09T15:08:04-04:00

Are You A Heavy User?

2014-03-09T14:46:50-04:00

Matthew Battles' Library: An Unquiet History W.W. Norton & Company, 2003 Welcome to my second bookish Friday. I've got notes that will take this theme halfway through July and I am thrilled; some of these are books I've meant to read for years, whereas others, like next Friday's choices, are

Are You A Heavy User?2014-03-09T14:46:50-04:00

Beginning the Bibliophilic Reads

2014-07-11T15:58:10-04:00

Alberto Manguel's The Library at Night Random House, 2006 I've borrowed this from the library so many times that it's embarrassing (although it feels strangely appropriate too, given its title). But bookishly embarrassing, the kind easily masked by raising your current read to hide your face. Nonetheless, Alberto Manguel's book

Beginning the Bibliophilic Reads2014-07-11T15:58:10-04:00

“Community Life” Lorrie Moore

2014-03-09T13:09:48-04:00

In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians Ed. Michael Cart Overlook Press, 2002 I learned from The Heroine's Bookshelf that it's National Library Week in the U.S. so it seemed fitting to choose a short story for April from this collection, edited by Michael Cart: In the Stacks:

“Community Life” Lorrie Moore2014-03-09T13:09:48-04:00

Stepping Out with Rebecca Gowers

2017-07-20T18:03:21-04:00

If you read Rebecca Gowers' first novel, When to Walk, you've been introduced to Ramble: she's not easy to know but she's at the heart of Gowers' debut so you'll have made her acquaintance. Those readers who want to make friends with the characters they're reading about, likely didn't even

Stepping Out with Rebecca Gowers2017-07-20T18:03:21-04:00
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