Bibliophobia...!

Last week, I told a friend I was skipping this year's Big Bad Wolf book sale - and went there twice and bought the most books so far du...

For the past several years, worn down by tons of reading I've had to do for work, I couldn't bear to look at another printed page af...

So once again, my reading backlog grows - exponentially. I haven't bothered to update my reading list since the last time. And ther...

I think I may have skipped at least one reading list update, but only because I felt the books didn't need much talking about. I've ...

Nowadays I wonder why I do this, but I'd like to think it helps keep me on my toes with regards to my deadlines. And it's the only w...

Hey, it's fill- um, reading list time. I've been loaned a couple of books for perusal, and given a list of new and upcoming books ...

Not long after Queen of America landed on my desk, I was offered a couple more, both by big names. Not a chance in hell, I thought. Too b...

Something is coming your way in December, i.e. next month. May I present: Luis Alberto Urrea's "...at turns heartbreaking, uplift...

On Monday, all the full-time editors made a trip to the book distribution arm of the company for books. I never knew the third floor of the ...

This morning, I replied thus to a colleague's e-mail: Received it. It is heavy. It is black. It smells good. It's very long. It...

Whatever possessed me to go and drag these home with me during the long, long weekend? Boredom and bravado, mostly. Never a good combinati...

...or how my reading list is getting longer. I picked up three books by Singaporean Eurasian novelist Rex Shelley (1930-2009) that have be...

Some books slated for review in The Star arrived at my desk today, courtesy of the MPH book people. Mitchell Zuckoff's Lost in Shang...

...because my brain, like Odo the Changeling from Star Trek: TNG , is still reconstituting from the weekend and is unable to come up with sn...