Boughtbooks

Tl;dr - Rufous and Calliope, by Sarah Louise Butler, is for me shockingly good, deeply intimate, and irreplaceable. Buy extra copies so you can give them to people you love.

Having just finished Airborn, the first novel in Kenneth Oppel's early 2000s airship trilogy, I was keen to jump into its sequel, Skybreaker,...

It's a weirdly niche genre, the History of the World in-- approach (47 borders, 6 glasses, 100 objects, etc), and David Gibbins has joined it with his determinedly nonfiction History of the World in 12 Shipwrecks.

I've been meaning to read Kenneth Oppel's novels for a very, very long time: he graduated from the same high school I did, a few years before me, although while we were there at the same time, I don't think we ever interacted.

Now that I've gotten through Airborn, which initially I bought thinking that I could persuade my daughter to read it with me, and so ...

The wrong books get filmed adaptations, much of the time.

I'm curious enough about the Netflix version of Denis Johnson's 2002 novella Train Dreams that I'll watch it, even though the book club tells me that there've been many significant changes (complete with entirely invented scenes, and scenes whose outcomes are very different from the book), in lar...