The Surly Bookseller

I have been a bookseller for 26 years, but that will be coming to an end in a few weeks. The owners of the bookshop where I've spent all...

I haven't asked you to suffer through yet another reading slump, or the writing-about-what-I've-read slump, either. Aren't you g...

You'll likely hear Brown's name evoked over and over in reviews of Ian Caldwell's new novel, but I have never read a Dan Bro...

  " The narrator of My Sunshine Away  tells the riveting story of the summer of 1989, when he was a fourteen-year-old boy in Bat...

I don't read a great deal of non-fiction. I don't say that to imply that it's a good thing, and it tends to happen that when...

I'm just going to squeeze in ONE more micro-review here, for a book that my boss has been raving about for months. I've had it on my...

Click here for my premiere audiovisual review if you are too lazy to read, bless your heart. I have held back on writing a rev...