The Surly Bookseller

Some booksellers, including this one, have a love-hate relationship with character series. On one hand, if a writer hits one out of the ...

She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband and donned...

I'm the youngest of four who had the unfortunate role of being the caboose on a string of dazzlingly brilliant and very good looking sib...

Here's something on which I usually don't bite: repackaging of a short fiction first published in a collection, particularly when th...

Let's make this short. Ms. Stevens has held me in thrall with some of her earlier novels. This one read like a first draft script fo...

One of the dangers of following any writer for any length of time is running up on that inevitable book that misses the mark, sometimes just...

I hate when reading slumps happen. Last time I had one, I quit even trying  to find a book that would grab me. Once it became clear I was in...