How many books read in 2024? 58 books, exactly the same as in 2023. How many fiction and non fiction? 36 fiction to 22 nonfiction. This surp...

 It's been a while! I'm kind of obsessed with zuihitsu right now, a Japanese literary form somewhere between a poem and an essay. It...

Welcome to the July Jewish Book Carnival, where we gather links from folks in the Jewish book world- librarians, authors, booksellers, and...

  It's Monday, and I'm treating myself to a re-read of  Diana Wynne Jones' children's classic Howl's Moving Castle . It...

  Shze-Hui Tjoa's memoir The Story Game is my current read. It's a mysterious, searing memoir told in a format I've never seen b...

  I'm reading J.L. Carr's lovely A Month in the Country , about an art restorer and WW1 vet spending a summer in the English country...

  I got a chance to visit the Niantic Book Barn in Niantic, Connecticut, recently. The Book Barn is unique among the bookstores I've vis...

  Welcome to the April Jewish Book Carnival, where we gather links from folks in the Jewish book world- librarians, authors, booksellers, an...

  I'm debating doing this here or over on my Substack but I feel like taking this up again right now. I was thinking about a written rea...

My annual book meme: It's Cards Against Humanity only with titles of books you read in the past year. It’s fun. Describe yourself: A Gir...