incunabular illumination

Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø has penned another Harry Hole novel in the series, called The Thirst . Harry Hole (pronounced HO-leh, apparently; ...

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...

The Overstory by Richard Powers is organized unlike any other book I can recall. Its like a series of short stories, that kind of grow toge...

I started these two books a few months ago, and just couldn't get through them.  One of the reasons I keep this blog is because I pick u...

The Book of Illusions is a novel Paul Auster, published in 2002, and was apparently pretty well received at the time. I don't really fo...

Andy Weir, of The Martian fame, has revisited those roots for Project Hail Mary . The protagonist, Ryland Grace, has many of the same trait...

  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'm a fan of David Mitchell and his surrealistic, fantastical worlds--which in some ways, all seem to be related to one another--that f...

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life was Herman Melville's first book. The paperback version I read, is from Penguin Classics , printed in ...

Metropolis by Philip Kerr. I'm trying to play catch up, so I'm working in reverse to gets some notes down, or a review, I guess you...

Ex -Libris is from 1998, so its been kicking around for a while. I borrowed this copy from my small lending library we have at my office. I...

I picked up William Kotzwinkle's The Bear Went Over the Mountain * at a library book sale on the South Shore. I don't recall readin...

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells is a 2014 book by Andrew Sean Greer, the author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli , 10 years prior. I li...

Sweeney On-the-Fringe is a short, sweet little novel by Dave Robinson , which states on the cover that it is "Based on the notes of Ow...

I'm pretty sure this book came from the book sale at my local library. It didn't seem like anyone had even opened it when I picked i...

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...

Philip Roth is not called a modern American master for nothin'. At least, I assume folks call him that.  I've read just a few of his...

Star Wars: The High Republic: Path of Vengeance is a novel published by Disney Lucasfilm Press , so is is a novel or is it film related mer...

Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick* is the second novel in the Zoey Ashe series by Jason "David Wong" Pargin. The first installm...