Year: 2004

This isn’t a review of Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes. If this were an actual review lights illuminated on the floor would guide you to the nearest exit. ...

How much credence do you give to a dust jacket description of a book? Allow me to quote the cover flap description from Death Is Not the End: For readers unfami...

Lest readers of this blog think I am simply a book geek, let me assure you I am a geek in a whole range of subjects. When I am not sitting at home reading books...

It takes a few paragraphs in Denise Mina’s terrific new novel Deception to grasp what’s being described. The book is written in the first person perspective...

I know it’s August and hot everywhere except in the Southern Hemisphere. Here in the Pacific Northwest where summer temps often soar into the high sixties...

I am very sad this morning as I just found out C-Span is canceling Booknotes: In announcing the cancellation of “Booknotes” — C-SPAN’s p...