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...
I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.
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...