Category Archives: reading

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky – I procrastinated reading this novel, largely because I knew it was so long and kept fitting in just one more book before starting it. But over Christmas … Continue reading →

Battleborn: Stories by Claire Vaye Watkins – When I saw the list of publications in her bio – One Story, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Glimmer Train – I knew I needed to pick it up. Though I did like some … Continue reading →

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka – This was a very short book, only 129 pages long.  The subject matter involves Japanese women who came to the United States to get married to men they’d never met before, … Continue reading →

I recently discovered a magazine called Bookmarks while browsing at Barnes & Noble.  They present a compilation of book reviews from papers like The New York Times and the Boston Globe, giving you a quick snapshot of what reviewers thought … Continue reading →

For the past few years I’ve kept a reading journal in a lined moleskine notebook.  I began using the library for much of my reading when I ran out of shelf space, but when I liked a book I felt … Continue reading →