ABC Book Meme For this meme, you list a favorite book that starts with each letter of the alphabet. If you don't have a book for a letter (such as Z or X) than you can substitute a favorite book that simply has that letter in the title (ex. The Lost...

This week brought some great books. I finally bought Luis Alberto Urrea's Into the Beautiful North after failing to win it in a giveaway or otherwise procure it gratis. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, came to me via Bookmooch. Rachel...

Suggested by Callista83: Do you read celebrity memoirs? Which ones have you read or do you want to read? Which nonexistent celebrity memoirs would you like to see? I've been known to read celebrity biographies or autobiographies, but rarely. I have be...

Isaac's Torah, by Angel Wagenstein. Published 2008 by Random House. Click here to buy Isaac's Torah from your favorite indie bookstore. Isaac's Torah is a gently bittersweet comic novel, about one Isaac Blumenfeld, a man who lives through disaster...

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about mid-year reading… Now that we’ve come to the middle of the year, what do you think of your 2009 reading so far? Read anything interesting that you’d like to share? Any outstanding favorites? So far 2009...