I had a little moment on Saturday.  I got up early to read before I went to work, and I fell in love with the book I'd just started.  And there I was on the couch, purring kitty to the left of me, wonderful book in my lap, strong black coffee to my right, and [...]...

For a week now the book Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me, edited by Ben Karlin, has been sitting on my table, staring me in the face and defying me to come up with one coherent thing to say about it. The book has beaten me.  I read about half of the essays included, [...]...

I tried (and tried, and tried*) to read Lee Siegel's new book Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. I like Lee Siegel.  (I loved his book of essays, Falling Upwards, if you'll remember.)  I'm down with his hypothesis: maybe we should pay a little attention to what technology and the [...]...

Read Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library, by Don Borchert, first.  If that doesn't scare you off the profession, read it again. It should come as no surprise that I enjoyed this book.  Borchert is an assistant librarian in a suburban Los Angeles public library, and offers chapters on subjects including [...]...

I thoroughly enjoyed Hadley Freeman's The Meaning of Sunglasses: And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable, although I am not and never will be fashionable, or almost fashionable, or anything remotely approaching fashionable. But that's okay.  We all make our choices.  It's no surprise that I liked this book; Freeman is a British journalist and [...]...