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 [...]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has been decisive long before the American version of the filmed booted up, and the recent release of press photos of a topless Rooney Mara has lifted some eyebrows. Eyebrows it didn’t lift? Mine. What did I do instead? Sighed. Gritted my teeth. And shook my head. While I’m [...]

Let me give you a snapshot of me back when I read the first installment of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. I was 17. I was working in a school to career program my high school offered at an industrial museum the next state over, giving tours and avoiding the spooky wax figures that peopled [...]