Posts Tagged ‘Charles Dickens’
Book Lists
Summer Reading Special: Escapist Travel Books
The summer is winding down now and it may be time for some of you to head back to school or college, or to knuckle back down to work after exciting vacations. But it’s never too early to start planning your next big adventure. ...
New Reads
What’s in a Name? Judging Books by their Titles
You’ve heard that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but what about judging books by their titles? Despite the perennial admonitions from good-natured and tolerant book-lovers, I daresay we all do it all the time: take on...
Book Lists
A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: The Lost Art of Letter Writing
When’s the last time you put pen to paper and wrote a letter? Not an e-mail, not a quickly jotted memo, but an actual hand-written letter, with the date at the top, a more or less formal term of address (you can never go wrong ...
New Reads
Hey Lolita, Hey: Bands Named After Literary Characters
Hey Lolita, hey Hey Lolita, hey I know what the boys like I’m not gonna play These are the lyrics to the refrain of Lana Del Rey’s song “Lolita.” Del Rey has been a polarizing musical figure bringing out...
What Should I Read Next
Review: Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott
Somewhere between the high culture of the Cain and Abel story (via both Genesis and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden) and the low culture of a buddy road trip flick lies Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott. Despite the cheesy title a...
New Reads
In Praise of Bookmarks
At last count I had 106 bookmarks. Approximately 31 of those I found – mostly ones that had been abandoned in books I shelved during my library and bookshop jobs over the past nine years. Twenty-one are from libraries and 19 fr...
Awesome Books
A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Books on the Financial Crisis
I don’t claim to understand very much about the economics or history of the downturn that began around 2008. What little I do know I largely attribute to the books I’ve read about it, both fiction and nonfiction. Many authors h...
Awesome Books
A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Gender Pioneers
This June marks LGBT Pride Month 2013, the fifth time it has been officially declared so by a U.S. president. June was chosen for this commemorative month to remember the Stonewall riots in New York City in June 1969, which pav...
Bibliotherapy
What to read? (Part 10) Rereading
There is a particular art and pleasure to rereading – a fact agreed upon by many of the authors and critics I’ve consulted recently. Dip into the books-about-books genre and you’ll discover that authors almost invariably exhort...
Literary Travels
Literary Grave Hunting
A curious hobby Graveyards are some of my favorite places to explore. Not for any morbid reason, mind you. I don’t find them spooky (though I don’t tend to walk through them at night) or even melancholy. Instead, I browse the g...
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Review: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
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Summer Reading Special: Escapist Travel Books
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