The Surly Bookseller

I picked up  The Headmaster's Wife  solely because I read somewhere in some piece on Thomas Christopher Greene that he'd wri...

There was the time I recommended a book to a woman whose mother had recently died, and a week or so later she came by the store just to than...

Here's something you need to know about me. I can remember the names of every teacher I ever had in every subject I ever studied.... exc...

Into every reading life, one supposes, a little "meh" must occasionally fall. Jess and Elise (15 and 17) join their evangeli...

I am an admirer of gardens, but I am not a gardener. I have no patience for it, nor any desire to develop the patience for it.  I'm ...

I have been on a decidedly bleak reading jag for the longest time, meaning that the books I have been loving lately have featured brutally e...

I am an enthusiastic fan of Adler-Olsen's Department Q novels, so when this one didn't quite grab me like they usually do I chalke...