incunabular illumination

Carlo Rovelli picked a great title when he chose Reality is Not What it Seems for this follow up to his Seven Brief Lessons on Physics ,* w...

  Aednan: An Epic is a long form poetry saga by Linnea Axelsson, translated into English by Saskia Vogel . We're going to stick with t...

I haven't read a ton of graphic novels, but some.* This book was a loan from my oldest ; not too long ago I commented that I had read a...

The full title of this book is BiblioTech: why libraries matter more than ever in the age of google . This book is from 2015, and when I got...

At some point in February or March, I read River of Doubt , by Candice Millard , but I didn't get a chance to write about it. It was pro...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is perhaps the best title for a non-fiction book about neurology, ever. But what do I know, I'...

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank was apparently pretty popular when it came out in 2001. Its not a long book, 300 pages or so, and it trac...

I picked up Word Freak at a library book sale, thinking my wife would want to read it. Nope. Word Freak , with its ridiculously long ...

This paperback copy of Seabiscuit was given to me and my wife by a librarian who we both worked with on one of our projects. I was going ...

First off, thanks so much to the folks in Erving, who were nice enough to bring this book for us to help celebrate my office 's 20th a...

My oldest gave me their copy of We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, to read. Its an essay, based on a TED talk Adichi...

The Treason of Isengard is the second in a series of four books, collectively know as The History of The Lord of the Rings , which is par...

I guess you could say Haiku Inspirations is a coffee table book, although those are usually larger affairs with lots of glossy pictures....

Hand Tools: Their Ways and Workings is a beautiful soft cover book written and illustrated by Aldren A. Watson in 1982. This is now my go...

I picked up 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus , a little while ago and then put it down, assuming that it was going t...

Truman Capote was a reporter as well as a writer, and did quite a few short stories as well as novels. I think that mixture of writing t...

I borrowed this book from my office lending library. It looks like the type of thing someone might have read before a trip to Italy, to ge...

Leonardo and the Last Supper is my third or fourth Ross King book, I'm not really sure. One of them: Brunelleschi's Dome , you...

I'm guessing that Nancy Marie Brown , author of Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths is an academic. I may be sa...

I've been hearing about this book since not long after it was written, its seems. My wife read this in her first year of college and s...