Last week, Amazon.com released the e-book reader that they've had in the works for the past three years. It's called the Kindle, as in to kindle a fire, kindle your ... Read More

After their father's death, sisters Vanessa, Ellie, and Georgiana are stunned to learn a well-kept family secret. A yellowed letter tucked away in a family Bible reveals that the woman ... Read More

"It's all about the turkey." That's what my friend Jon says about Thanksgiving, but I'm pretty sure he's wrong. It's actually all about the gratitude, that small aspect of ... Read More

Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Chrismas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only ... Read More

About a month ago, I discovered and blogged about Shelfari, one of what I think of as the top three social-networking sites for book-lovers, along with Goodreads and LibraryThing. I'm ... Read More

Run is at its very center, a novel about what truly defines family and the lengths we will go to protect our children. As she did in her bestselling novel ... Read More

The second annual Love of Reading Online Book Fair is Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week at www.loveofreading.com. Conecting readers with authors, reviewers, bloggers, and publishers, the three-day fair will ... Read More

The Guardian has an interesting story about 3,778 books that were taken from Peru's National Library during the War of the Pacific(1879-1883) finally being returned: "The volumes, written in Greek, Latin, ... Read More

In The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold's new novel. A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this unforgettable work by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. ... Read More

E-readers will never replace books. There. I said it. Why? Because despite the purported economy of the e-reader, despite the convenience of being able to store hundreds ... Read More