We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.
You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.
Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay...
In setting down these recollections of my early years so far removed from their unfolding, I am fooled, as all are, by time itself. My parents, long gone from my world, live again. Memory, which so co...
I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.