By:  Howard Norman The Press Write Up:  Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, returns to the mesmeriz...

The purpose of this post is to make it known that I intend to participate in the Banned Book Reading Challenge.  The challenge is to read at...

By:  Paula Marantz Cohen From Goodreads:  Henry James is suffering through boring drunken dinner parties in London, but when his brother W...

Parajunkee asks what our favorite brick and mortar book store is.  Lately I've most often been going to Borders at Mall of Louisiana b...

By:  Katie Williams Summary:  This story was supposed to be about Evie--how she hadn’t made a friend in years; how she tends to stretch th...

By:  Jennifer Echols Summary:  WHY CAN’T YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU FORGET . . . AND WHAT YOU REMEMBER? There’s a lot Zoey would like to forget. ...

By:  Malinda Lo From Goodreads:  In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief,...

By:  Andrew Xia Fukuda From Goodreads:  A loner in his all-white high school, Chinese-born Xing (pronounced “Shing”) is a wallflower longi...

By:  Matthew Pearl From Goodreads:  "Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, t...

By: Angela Knight, Nalini Singh, Virginia Kantra, & Meljean Brook 4 Stars for the book, but 5 for Meljean's Here There Be Monsters....

This week's question pertains to rating systems.  I don't use a rating system.  I feel too restricted by it.  Every now and then I...