Our January Mother-Daughter Book Club read was Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang. This was ...

The Children Act is Ian McEwan’s latest novel. It takes place in London (where I ...

Anna Whiston-Donaldson and I run loosely in the same DC blogging circles. We’ve never met, ...

So this is kind of depressing: I just re-read my Reading Year in Review post ...

Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Blunt is another book that I didn’t ...

I may have been the last person on the planet to read The Art of ...

I am no stranger to depressing books. I read quite a few of them. I ...

Neil Patrick Harris’ autobiography, Choose Your Own Autobiography, is a funny and interesting chronicle of the ...

I attended a Q&A with Jane Smiley at Politics & Prose earlier this fall, and since ...

This fall, Jane Smiley released Some Luck, the first in a trilogy about a midwestern family, ...