YHB had read one or two of Eva Ibbotson’s books, and I liked ’em well enough, or so I think I remember. I picked up The Star of Kazan (Dutton) from my new local library because it looked good…
When YHB got Locked Rooms out from my erstwhile local library, it reminded me that The Game was likely to be out in paperback. This was, in fact, the case, and a copy was purchased and read. I am fond…
OK, here’s another question for Gentle Readers. As y’all are aware, YHB is a baseball fan, and although circumstances have prevented me from paying as close attention as I often do, and other circumstances have prevented my Giants from being…
I don’t remember whether I read Pride and Prejudice when I was a teenager. Probably I did, although I didn’t remember a scrap of it. It’s equally likely that I read some other Jane Austen book or books, and decided…
OK, so it case it wasn’t obvious, I’ve been catching up on my Book Reports before packing up the computer and moving house. I’ll be off-line for the next couple of days, then on dial-up for a couple of weeks…
I had mentioned a couple of months ago (I had written a couple of moths ago but it was many more moths than that) that it had been at least a year and a half since I read Mirror Dance….
The last book I had my wonderful local library hold for me before leaving town was Locked Rooms, the latest Mary Russell book by Laurie R. King. I found it a very annoying book, although there were some exciting bits,…
Although what with one thing and another, YHB hadn’t expected to read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for a while yet, it turned out that a copy came to hand almost immediately, and then there was this all-day car…
Given only a small amount of time at the computer these days, YHB has spent way way too much of it enjoying the discussion of thee and thuh over at the Language Log. Since the conversation has become wide-ranging, David…
OK, for those who have been following the hoo-hah about anonymity and its motives, a quote from this morning’s New York Times, in Skirmish Over a Query About Roberts’s Faith, by David D. Kirkpatrick: “The discussion was described by two…