Boughtbooks

Even though it borrows some of its structure from Samuel R. Delany's novel Dhalgren, and mimics elements of Victorian memoir (and Victorian travel writing), and belongs to the crowded genre of nostalgic travel memoir, there's just nothing in the least like Andrew Strut...

Back when I read Roger Deakin's Wildwood: A Journey through Trees, I said that I was partly thrilled and partly over it (so to speak). This was his second book of the same time, following his 1999 Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey throu...

Seventeen years ago, the book club read Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and some of us loved it. A few of us, in fact, used some lines from the book as catchphrases for a few years, so it cast a shadow; I'd read t...

Although I do teach poems sometimes, I don't read whole books of poetry very often anymore. When it comes to poetry, at heart I read poems rather than books: give me an epic or a sonnet cycle or a blank-verse novel, and I'm tucking in for the duration, but collections can leave me feeling like I only needed some of what's between the covers.

This is a me problem, to be ...

So 2312 is the eighth book by Kim Stanley Robinson that I've commented upon here at Book Addiction HQ, though not for the first time, this has reminded me that I haven't written here about The Ministry for the Future (which is a nove...