The Devil All the Time is Donald Ray Pollock’s first novel, and if talent means anything, I think it’s safe to say that it won’t be his last. While I can’t put my finger on wh...
This week, Meg and I talk about the next book in the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth. She’s getting close to the end of the series, so we also discuss what may...
Best book news of the decade: Zach Galifianakis to play Ignatius Reilly in film adaptation of A Confederacy of Dunces that might actually get made. Lev Grossman writes a stirring defense of genre and...
The literary world is seemingly in a collective freak-out about the new trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. I’m a sucker for Luhrmann. I was a big fan...
I’ve been conducting a lot of ancestry research lately so when I found the name of the slave owner that probably owned my husband’s family, I was thrilled but surprisingly very uncomfortable. I can o...
After coming off of a dismal experience reading the incredibly boring The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, I saw Tim’s review of Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane and couldn’t help but think it...
On this week’s episode, we tackle the important issue of summer reading. Meg lists a few books that might make her reading list, and it sounds like she might be on the fence about signing up fo...
So, it’s come to this: Court Orders Amazon.com To Adopt Bankrupt Bookstores’ Cats Most Painful Pun of the week: ”… a Sentence to Write Sentences: When former pharmaceutical ex...
It was a strange coincidence. The day I finished reading Amber Dermont’s The Starboard Sea, a novel that deals in part with hazing/bullying at an elite prep school, the revelation of Mitt Romne...
Not being a southerner by birth, I was introduced to southern literature at a relatively late age. And despite not having read any of Mark Twain’s works as of yet [insert shock and gasp here], ...
This week on Book Time with Meg, we talk about A-Z Super Heroes an ABC picture book that Meghan made for her little brother with some help from Dad. We got the great idea from the book Geek Dad: Awes...
Hey! We were just talking about Fifty Shades of Grey! Check out this Amazon Mother’s Day Commercial to find out the real story behind the book. Don’t watch at work! Broward County, Florid...
The City of Bohane by Kevin Barry should be at the very top of every men’s book club reading list. Make it happen. It is this year’s The Sister’s Brothers – muscular prose and...
So says the femme fatale in the opener of the new season of Sherlock. If you’re not watching this fantastic modern-day interpretation of the Sherlock Holmes stories, you are missing out on some...
Meghan (8) and I double down on the Percy Jackson this week. We discuss books two and three in the series, The Sea of Monsters and The Titan’s Curse. We branched out and recorded our session at...
Bill Clinton reviews the latest installment of Robert Caro’s ongoing biography of Lyndon Johnson in the NYT Book Review. A nice overview of how green your e-reader really is. The most underline...
Actually, if you do have any questions, read the story on this cool poster at Galleycat.
(This is another guest post by our friend Shannon here in Atlanta. Thanks, Shannon!) Ok, Judgy McJudgerpants, before you get all high and mighty on me, let me explain. I will read almost anything tha...
Short stories are a tricky breed. Intuitively, it seems that they would be easier to craft than long form fiction, because you don’t have to keep a reader interested for as long, right? But at ...
This week on Book Time with Meg, Meg (8) and I discuss the Tintin comic Red Rackham’s Treasure by Hergé. The “young readers” edition that Meg read also includes some nifty end notes...
Nerdy Book Club has 5 reasons that you should let your kids pick our their own books Jonathan Lethem puts together a Spotify playlist of his top 10 songs by the Talking Heads for Slate. Learn to be s...
In case you missed it, there was an interesting editorial in Sunday’s NYT. A New York City public school teacher argued against the tyranny of preparing for standardized tests in favor of teach...
After finishing After Dark by Haruki Murakami, which left me rather confused, what did I do? I popped in the first of what would be 15 long discs of Snow by Orhan Pamuk. Reading the back cover, I wou...
This week on Book time with Meg, my 8 year old daughter and I discuss Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and JK Rowling’s new immersive Harry Potter website Pottermore. It was a windy day in ...
Because we all need one: Your Guide to the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist Fiction, no Pulitzer for you! The NY Times Ethicist column tackles the problem of a loophole in borrowing books...
(This is a guest post by our friend Shannon here in Atlanta. Thanks, Shannon!) This is one of those book reviews that I feel pained to write because I am such a huge fan of the author, but the book ...
Reading is Fundamental has an excellent new music video to promote reading. The song is by The Roots with vocal support from a “We are the World”-style backing cast. Take the Book People ...
It’s time for another thrilling episode of Book Time with Meg. This week Meghan, my 8 year old daughter, and I are talking about Mary Pope Osborne’s Tales From the Odyssey: Part 1. Boo...
Cory Doctorow on the book story du jour: Anti-trust and e-books NPR looks at the DOJ e-book case and Gone with the Wind MobyLives on the DOJ case: How do you respond when the government not only pr...
You are no longer following . Undo?
English
Suomi
Svenska