It’s officially Christmas Day in my part of the world so I thought I’d take a moment just to wish all of the readers of RobAroundBooks a very Merry Christmas.
Needless to say that posting around here will be light for a few days as I spend time with my family, but rest assured I [...]

One of the best short stories I’ve read during my 100 Shots of Short reading challenge so far, has undoubtedly been Edgar Allan Po’s Tell-Tale Heart (afterthoughts). I’m not sure if it’s the dark brutality of the story, the sheer madness portrayed in the chief protagonist, or a combination of both that draws me to [...]

This post over at the Literature Network forums has prompted me to ask the the question - What interesting things have you found in 2nd-hand books?
Aside from the usual collection of receipts, train tickets and post-it notes, the most amazing thing I found was a letter from an author - not just any author [...]

As an unreserved book lover I’m not really sure what to think of the art pieces I discovered on this page earlier today. There’s no denying that some of them are hugely impressive (such as the ‘booky’ art of Brian Dettmer and Sue Blackwell (that’s one of her pieces above)), but in a fundamental sense [...]