incunabular illumination

I picked up copies of The History of the Lord of the Rings years ago, when I saw them in the store and thought they would be fun to read ...

Friends, its NERAX time. Here's the skinny: NERAX 2013 March 20 - 23, 2013 Somerville American Legion Post 388 163 Gle...

The Sky So Big and Black , is, as far as I can recall, my first John Barnes, SciFi story. I'm not sure I get John Barnes completely, b...

High Fidelity is the 1995 novel by Nick Hornby on which the John Cusack movie of the same name was based. I'd seen the movie, but h...

The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again was originally published in 1937--seventy-six years ago--yet the story can still delight. Originally ...

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is Nathaniel Philbrick's re-telling of an infamous Nantucket whaling stor...

Cotton Malone is back in action. Malone returns in The Jefferson Key ;  the seventh installment of this retired agent from the super-secre...

The Once and Future King is T.H. White’s famous retelling of the King Arthur story; a story which grows up with Arthur along the way. The...

The Great Book of Amber is a FAT book, boy. 10 books; 1258 pages. As I speculated in my earlier review of the first five books in this t...