incunabular illumination

I've just added RSS Feed capabilities via Feedburner. If you already pull a feed from this blog, and if it all works right, then nothin...

So I'm going to have to break this one up into chunks; its a big boy. The Age of Wonder , by Richard Holmes , that is. I put this one on...

Today's Boston Globe includes an article on the library that's been set up in the Occupy Boston camp at Dewey Square. Sorry about t...

I just read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle; first published in 1962. I didn't know a lot about this story, other than it se...

The book you see reviewed directly below this post is my 75th book since starting this blog! I was amazed when I counted them up. It usually...

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún , by J.R.R. Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien) is Tolkien's take on some very old Norse epic poetr...

Why am I writing about the The Three Musketeers again , when I finished reading it like... a year ago? Its because The Three Musketeers ha...

Lev Grossman is writing young adult literature for adults as much as the YA crowd. I'm sure the same could be said for JK Rowling --espe...

I've added a new category on the right-hand column. Its down near the bottom, and its called 'notes and scribbles.' This little ...