I posted this on social media a while back, but I keep thinking about it. There's a long history in children's literature of war, di...

I've long said that there needs to be a separate branch of physics that deals solely with bookshelves. Namely, their complete inability ...

Elanor has never dreamed. Instead, every time she falls asleep, she experiences the life of another person -- a boy named Takashi. And whe...

Glad you asked. I've got three books going at the moment -- two histories and one science fiction title. All three have proved to be s...

In the last two or three years, I've noticed a tendency to read dramatically fewer books than I once did. And by "dramatically fewe...

I've opined before that creative writing is, in many ways, akin to the process of putting a patchwork quilt together -- the goal is to ...

For a good year now, I've been enjoying (and occasionally using) the wealth of public-domain images that the British Library has generou...

Well, I've been through a full course of antibiotics (Zithromax! When you have to nuke the ick from orbit just to be sure!) and I'm ...

So, yesterday I read the copy of The Fault In Our Stars that's been floating around the house ever since V finished it. Huh. How...

It's pretty safe to say we like our science fiction around here. But that wasn't always the case for me. Yeah, I'll pause to...

Feeling super ugly today. (Hey, we've all got those days, right?) My fabulous sister Jenny says that on days like this you should make a...

Glad you asked. Recently finished: People have been recommending Markus Zusak's The Book Thief since it was first released, but I...

Earlier this year I first floated the idea of the van Gogh list -- creating a list of living people whose contributions to the world you es...

In 1982, the summer after Dad died, all the kids in my family were farmed out to aunts and uncles in the Bay Area so that Mom could travel o...

Mockingjay pin image courtesy of the Freshly Popped blog NOTE: minor spoilers ahead for those who have not yet read the book The Hunger G...

NOTE: If you are easily offended by bad words, proceed with caution. It was a close place. I took [the paper] up, and held it in my ha...

October, for obvious reasons, is an optimal time of year to read or re-read horror and suspense novels. On the advice of The Internet, I pic...