We found ourselves discussing the three kinds of fateful choices that exist in the two books: the ones characters make knowing that they can never be undone; the ones they make thinking they can but l...
The new Brooks novel is called People of the Book,
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.
She always read the end of a book first because she couldn’t wait to find out how things would turn out.
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves. The young man can’t think of anything to say in response. T...
I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore because I no longer think it's true. I now say that a book is the second greatest gift. I've com...
I like books. I don't read them. But I like them.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, the new book by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.
Book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch,
What does one say to someone who has just been diagnosed with such a dire illness?
Well, what were your favorite books? When? As a young girl. Nancy Drew. I read dozens of them. I loved the idea of a girl detective.
We had chosen as our next book club selection Jhumpa Lahiri’s new collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, as we’d both loved her 2003 novel The Namesake and her first book of stories, Interpr...
Trust is all about instinct. If you had all the facts, you wouldn't need trust. Trust is what is required in the absence of proof. But I believe you can strengthen your instincts by testing them; ever...
The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways--that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.
The thing about Americans, she said, is that you’re very concerned about everything all the time.
The poem begins, About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position; how it takes place / While someone else is eating or opening a window or just...
The Uncommon Reader, a novella by Alan Bennett
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly.
That’s the point, Will. You can’t control the beatings. But maybe you can have some control over your happiness. As long as he can, well then, he still has something worth living for. And when he’s no...
One of the things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. Sure, sometimes they’ll elude you by h...