A new list! The Guardian newspaper just published a list of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read: Selected by the Guardian's Review team a...

Rose City Reader is a book blog -- not a political blog. I generally avoid politics here. But the Sam Adams thing has me riled up -- The Ore...

"Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyo...

It took me years to get around to reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Once I did, I understood why it is so popular -- and why...

"The most renowned works of literature by history’s greatest authors," according to the Editorial Advisory Board of Easton Press. ...

. . . ends. And just in time for Book Club tonight. This is an amazing book. There were parts I really had to wrestle with. And I am st...

The Internet Review of Books published a short version of my review of Justice Denied by Marci Hamilton in the January issue . They ran i...

"The $4 million Nike athletic-shoe contract in Shandell Bird’s shirt pocket wasn’t about to solve his problem – couldn’t even put a d...

Bob from ArtScatter contributed so much to my list of Dipso Lit that I couldn't leave his valuable information languishing in the co...

Heading into another cold, soggy Oregon winter weekend, my thoughts have turned to hooch. I'm planning to snuggle up in front of the fi...

“ 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...