I enjoy reading "what was that book?" sites, except I am often baffled by the incredible illiteracy displayed by the people asking. It's hard to believe that some of them have ever actually read a book. But I just now got it. The lack of punctuation...

as I was, once upon a time, I just started The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and I suspect the authors are channeling her. Will be interesting to see where it goes. (I see that Nancy Pearl sees more of a Helene Hanff thing going on. ...

I reread Jean Webster's Dear Enemy the other day -- it's hard to judge a book you've loved for around 30 years, but I think it hold up tremendously well despite being around a hundred years or so old -- and got a craving to reread just the ending of...

My son tends to find his own books, and very selectively too, so it was a little thrill to see him reading something I'd put on his shelves, Making Friends with Frankenstein. Tonight his dad was out of town, so rather than the usual installment of...

xkcd on filmed children's classics.