Rob Asks… Is my Reading Journal a feature too much?

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed I didn’t put up a Reading Journal entry yesterday. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the time to do it or I’d forgotten, but rather I’m starting to doubt its worth. In all honesty I really do enjoy writing about my reading day. Not only do I [...]

Norman Sims on Joseph Mitchell

It’s not every day that a very special visitor decides to drop by RobAroundBooks (not that I’m saying that everyone who visits RobAroundBooks isn’t very special), but this past weekend was a little more than memorable because Norman Sims, author of True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism (Northwestern University Press), stopped by to [...]

Happy New Year!!

Party time may be finished but at least we get to break the seal on a brand new diary

Daily Bookshot: Turquoise & Blue

Sshort story reading goodness from Aamer Hussein and Maggie Gee.

Daily Bookshot: Soul Food for the Bibliophile

Soul Food for the Bibliophile, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

Books about books are in a genre of their own, and they hold a special place in my heart. I like to call these books ‘soul food for the bibliophile’ because they not only have the potential to leave a lasting and profound impression on the [...]

The last Sunday ‘catch up’ of the month

And there we go – blink an eye and June comes to end, just like that. What a month though. It’s been fun. And this week more than any I’ve managed to get my blogging work-rate up to a more respectable level. Still a long way from where I want to be, but definitely heading [...]

A fly-by ’round up’

Happy Sunday evening folks. I’m up to my neck writing up a couple of belated reviews right now, but I couldn’t let the evening go past without the usual Sunday evening round up of everything I’ve posted over the past seven days:

Daily Bookshot: The Mark of a Master
‘Shot of Short’ #38: A Cloud of [...]

Sunday’s postal gathering

I know the post title sounds like this may be a post about all the mail items I’ve received over the past week, but it’s not. Instead it’s the usual round-up of everything posted on RobaRoundBooks over the past week. Are you ready? Let’s go:

Daily Bookshot: One delights! The other intrigues!
Devouring De Maupassant: Mademoiselle Fifi
Rob’s [...]

The weekly ‘catch up’

If the round up of this week’s posts were my school report card then, scribed in black ink at the bottom, in bold capital letters, would be – MUST TRY HARDER.
It’s actually been a funny week reading-wise. I didn’t get through anywhere near as much as I wanted to, but what I did manage [...]

Questions for Paolo Giordano?

If you’re a fan of Paolo Giordano, the author of ‘The Solitude of Prime Numbers’, then now’s your chance to ask him any questions.

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