I’m just coming off a perfect little trifecta of great, page turning reads. The Rook, An Abundance of Katherines and Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore have all been fantastically fun, and a terrific way to close out the year. 30 books read so far. This is up from last years 24. Not bad considering the sheer [...]

Heard about Book Spine Poetry over at the Books on the Nightstand podcast. Inspired by artist Nina Katchadourian and her Sorted Books Project she explains it thus: “The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles [...]

It’s been a bit of a love-in as far as reading goes around here. Turns out the internet – oft decried as the antithesis to long form reading – is largely responsible for my ravenous consumption. Reading has always been a solitary pursuit. It is the perfect introvert pastime. But it turns out Oprah was [...]

I’m an unapologetic reader. It’s a part of my daily routine and there’s very few nights I don’t first settle into bed to read before falling asleep. For the entirety of this past year however that reading was done on my iPad. A year ago I would have dismissed e-reading, defending my love of the [...]