It’s The Books

There’s an essay in the NYT today by Rachel Donadio, It’s Not You, It’s Your Books, about “literary taste [as] a good shorthand for gauging compatibility.”
As Bookslut blogger Jessa Crispin says, “if I went over to a man’s house and there were those books about life’s lessons learned from dogs, I would probably keep my […]

New Books This Week

The Reader’s Advisor lists “sure-to-sell” books due out this week.
Fiction titles include Susan Wittig Albert’s latest China Bayles crime novel, Nightshade; Nevada Barr’s latest Anna Pigeon crime novel, Winter Study; Dorothy Cannell’s Goodbye, Ms. Chips, latest in the Ellie Haskell series; Barbara Delinsky’s Suddenly; Eric Jerome Dickey’s Pleasure; Karen Robards’ romantic thriller Guilty; and the […]