A quick holiday shopping tip - if you're looking for books to give as gifts, Chronicle Books is having a promotion - 35% off plus free shipping through 12/4. I got some cute books for my kids, but they have a very wide range of books on a lot of topics...

Thank you to guest-poster Nancy West for this review of A Change of Altitude by Anita Shreve. On one level, A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve is a travelogue, depicting what it’s like to live as an American in Kenya in the late 1970’s. As...

Happy Thanksgiving to EDIWTB readers! I hope that you have a good holiday, one that includes some quiet time tor reading whatever you're enjoying right now. This year, like every year, I am thankful for great books, wonderfully talented authors, and...

Sorry for a long lapse in posting. I started a new job and my daughter has been sick since I last posted, and I just didn't have the time to update the blog. But I am back!Thanks to everyone who weighed in on my Twilight post last week. Really...

The Washington Post has an article today about women who consider themselves readers of quality literary fiction who avoided the Twilight series, dismissing them as stupid and poorly written, and then finally read them, and then were hooked.I have to...