“ Water the Bamboo is a metaphor for success,” writes Greg Bell , a former lawyer, now a “speaker, trainer and facilitator” who works wit...

"This book had its beginnings in January 1993, although I did not realize it at the time." -- The Quotable Ronald Reagan by Pe...

"Water the Bamboo is a metaphor for success." -- Water the Bamboo by Greg Bell

Finally! There is finally a book over there on the right side because I finally finished a book in 2009. Not that I set out to start off 2...

The Premios Dardo Award! I do not know who started this award, but I thank No BS Book Reviews for recognizing my blog by "awarding...

Although Theodore Dreiser finished Sister Carrie in 1900, years of stutter steps on the part of various publishing companies delayed its...

In 2005, TIME Magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo picked the 100 best English-language novels from 1923, the year TIME be...

Like I mentioned the other day, Sometimes a Great Notion has really gotten to me. I am now about halfway through and am all caught up in t...

This is why I do not make New Year's resolutions -- here it is only the 7th of January and I already forgot the half-hearted resolution ...

Martin Amis’s Money is a stumbling, swirling, sodden romp though the protagonist’s brain. As anti-hero John Self bounces back and forth...

Over on the right side of this blog is a long list of book covers showing the books I read in 2008 (thanks to LibraryThing that supplies th...

There were many books that I really enjoyed in 2008, so it is not easy to pick favorites. I picked these because, when going through the lis...

Well, I am giddy with delight this morning. Laura Grimes of The Oregonian wrote a great follow-up piece to her story last week about stru...

My post on Radcliffe's Top 100 novels of the 20th Century list is completely updated. Now all the links work. Although I refuse to mak...

2008 was quite a reading year for me. I read a total of 127 books, which is a personal "best" -- quantitatively at least. In looki...

In Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children , law professor Marci Hamilton makes the case for abolishing statutes of...

This is the list of books I read in 2008, in the order that I read them. For an explanation of my rating system, see here . The Green Man ...

Who am I kidding? I never adopt New year's resolutions of any kind. Well, other than my standard set: eat less; drink less; swear less; ...

I'm getting a head start on 2009 by setting up this page to list the books I read. Usually, I keep the list in a pretty book that I have...

A Handful of Dust struck me as a mix between Brideshead Revisited and Scoop . It starts off as an English country house drama, and ends ...

Martin Dressler left me cold. Steven Millhauser generated a lot of hullabaloo with this book – and won the Pulitzer Prize – because ...