You can wail and gnash your teeth over Twilight all you want. “The book advocates co-dependency and being a Mormon and is also poorly written!” Agreed – these are valid arguments. But say what you will about Meyer’s inexplicable run away smash hit – she’s created a perfect cipher physically in Bella Swan. Reading [...]

Certain novels have a way of creeping under your skin. It’s insidious. What begins as a quick sampling on the subway to pass the time becomes a knuckle-clenching gut-roiling read out of, seemingly, nowhere. You don’t  come across these sort of books often, but when you  hit a novel which elicits that  feeling of transportation, [...]

I put off the acquisition of any sort of electronic reader for a long time. It was partly because I am a snot and I enjoy going on long diatribes about the tangible intelligence of holding a weighty tome in one’s hands and partly because I knew the danger’s inherent of giving me access to [...]