2009-01-28 00:36
I read once that the dust jacket comprises 80% of a book’s value. It’s a good idea to protect your dust jackets in an archival cover, so that you can read, handle, and display t… Read More
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2009-01-27 02:30
I recently rearranged the books on my shelves featuring (1) a shelf organized by color, (2) a shelf of creams and blacks, and (3) a shelf of miscellaneous school books. So I decided to post… Read More
2009-01-27 00:12
Over the weekend, I shopped at Books for America‘s amazing sale of used books. I’ll do a profile on Books for America (located in Washington DC) later, but it’s enough now… Read More
2009-01-26 22:44
Yet more acclaim for Robert Bolano‘s 2666.
It made the National Book Critics Circle‘s list of finalists for its 2008 awards.
The other titles rounding out the finalists in t… Read More
2009-01-19 21:40
In the spirit of the inaugural celebration, here’s a post devoted to President-Elect Barack Obama’s love of reading. He himself has written two critically-acclaimed books, Dreams… Read More
2009-01-17 05:51
Stacks of books everywhere. A jumbled mess of books toppling over on the shelves. There are better ways to display your books!
And there are more options than a traditional, orderly bo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I loved Audrey Niffenegger’s first novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife. It is one of the most profound love stories I’ve ever read, and I remember loaning my copy to at least f… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
We all need methods in our lives to separate the worthwhile from the time-wasting, the valuable wheat from the useless chaff. I’m not suggesting that all other books are chaff-like (I… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I discovered a great comment that had been marked by wordpress as “spam,” and I fortunately rescued it from oblivion. Vanessa from the Odyssey Bookshop commented about a fantasti… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
My newest fixation is the audiobook. I’ve taken a few long trips — one to Paris, and most recently holiday travel. When traveling for long periods of time, I have always brought… Read More
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