Now that Summer is half over and school starts in just two weeks… Birmingham’s local Black and White city paper has released its Summer Reading issue.
Better get cramming!
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Reading 5 books a day
According to this cool article/interview, Amazon’s most prolific customer reviewer has posted 12,000 reviews in 7 years. That’s unbelievable and a lot of folks in the industry have been taking note. Though an English professor interviewed for the article admits that she has, on occassion, read 5 books in a day!
I don’t think I can drink enough coffee to get me to that pace.
Just finished…
J. Egan’s The Keep. I am afraid you’re not missing much here. But if you’re interested I posted some thoughts over on LibraryThing. I really need to try and do a better job at this whole “book review” thing.
If you have a blog or two that you frequent for reviews, please send me the link. I’d like to study some good reviews.
Just finished
I have posted two quick and dirty reveiws of a couple of books I finished last week.
They are both on LibraryThing. One is a review of Philip Roth’s Professor of Desire and the other review is of Andre Schiffrin’s The Business of Books.