The Surly Bookseller

I've been in yet another dreadful slump with reading, and once again, have put down more books after reading 100 pages or so than sho...

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...