The Surly Bookseller

Here's a true thing about me.  I almost never travel anywhere, but when I do, I find I do very little reading unless it's on in t...

One of my favorite review blogs is Whimpulsive . The woman who writes it encouraged me to start my own several years ago, and encouraged me ...

It's been a minute since I finished a book. Just the usual: taxes, a couple false starts on books I decided not to finish. You know. STU...

It happens, from time to time. You jump into a novel for which buzz is beginning to build, and from the minute you start you realize this ...

I've yet to meet an author who has given us more than one book who won't confess to liking some of their own novels more than others...

Set in 1961,  Ordinary Grace  gives us an over-the-shoulder look into one heartbreaking summer in the life of cozy Bremen, Minnesota ...

I have never read a single book written by Robert B. Parker. Anything I knew of his characters Spenser and Hawk comes from television, a...