Bookdwarf

Do you ever think to yourself, I love where I live and I love where I work? I just got back to my office on this sunny, Fall day in Cambridge. Where else could you be buying onions and hot peppers at the farmers market on the Harvard campus in front of the Science Center [...]

I’m proud to present a site that focuses on reading locally–Meeting House: A Journal of New England Fiction. This week they present an interview with Ron Currie, Jr., the author of God is Dead, the story about God returning to Earth in the form of a Dinka woman. It’s been on my TBR pile for [...]

Lucky Ed interviews Oliver Sacks in the latest Time Out New York. He smiles and selects a track on his stereo to offer an example, finding a cover of “Shooby Dooin’ ” performed by Woody Geist, a patient who has suffered from Alzheimer’s for decades but who sings with the polish of a suave ballroom crooner. [...]

It’s been a long week. Working on the Holiiday Hundred (books that my store features for the holidays, usually what we consider the best books of the year) and staying up late to watch the Red Sox. I find that I’m too anxious to watch the games directly so I’ll read while in front of [...]

Finished another couple of books over the weekend. I seem to be in this mode of picking books that I know I can read quickly. There’s something satisfying about that for me right now. Perhaps because work is getting so crazy. I’m never done it seems. We’re starting to plan for the holidays—I have to [...]

Ann Enright has won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering.

Once again, I’ve been plowing through some books. Here’s what I’ve been reading: The Outlander by Gil Adamson– I’d describe this book as a crescendo. It starts out slow, even though you begin with the main character on the run from her two vengeful brothers-in-law in 1903 northern Canada. Mary is nineteen and already a [...]

The Washington Post Book Review has started a bookblog cleverly called Short Stack.

I woke up this morning bright and early to learn that Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I’m both shocked and delighted. None of the articles I’ve read discussing possible winners mentioned her. She’s had a long career as an author and she didn’t even finish high school!

The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded tomorrow at 1pm Stockholm time. Bloomberg news has a rundown of the current contenders, which include Syrian-born poet and critic Adonis, South Korean author Ko Un, and Philip Roth. Speaking of awards, the National Book Award Finalists were announced today. I’m posting the Fiction and Non-Fiction, which [...]

I’m back from the NEIBA trade show with a small cold and almost no voice (I sound like Marge Simpson). I’m also trying to catch up on email from the past few weeks. Once again, I’m off on Thursday for the weekend for the dreaded parent meeting—my parents and Mr. Bookdwarf’s parents meeting for the [...]