I read a lot. A lot. And I reread a lot, so I like to own books rather than borrowing them from the library. But after many years of cleaning out every bookstore I could find, and a few more placing enormous orders at Amazon, I stumbled across PaperBackSwap, which is pretty much the best [...]

Jane Green’s first book, Straight Talking, is not her best. Tasha is both shallow and selfish, and I couldn’t root for her no matter how hard I tried. At one point she found out something hurtful and I actually thought “serves you right!” (She said as much to herself, too, but that still wasn’t enough [...]

Though I don’t care at all about Kung Fu, I loved Karen Brichoux’s Coffee and Kung Fu. The (brief) comparisons to martial arts movies are fun and even interesting, but it’s the author’s descriptions and dialogues that really make this book stand out. One line in particular, which I can’t remember exactly so I won’t [...]