The Surly Bookseller

There has been a great deal of discussion among well-established book bloggers in recent years about whether panning a book is quite the thi...

For the longest time I resisted reading mysteries until I was persuaded to try Elizabeth George's A Great Deliverance . I was hoo...

My fascination with all things morbid is something I trace back to a time when, for some reason that escapes me now but likely had something...

On one of my last days as a bookseller a customer asked if I had ever read Alice Sebold's bestselling novel  The Lovely Bones . I confes...

There is a short stack of books I read in recent past months that I just never got around to reviewing. Because I want to start 2016 off fre...

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...