I discover to my own indignation that library loans and procrastination don’t mix too well when you’re trying to get through your reading lists.

The Guardian’s Joshua Stein takes a look at some of the seminal literary works centred on New York, published from the 1930s to the present-day

Finally getting around to doing my write-up for this novel, read my afterthoughts on what turns out to be a truly exceptional story

An epic to match Tolstoy’s War & Peace, a Scott Fitzgerald collection, and three Booker Winners form part of my latest batch of book grabs.

A fable about a man that lives in a tin shack, in the middle of nowhere. It’s my first time reading Magnus Mills. Find out if I like him in my latest ‘afterthoughts’.

This week instead of ’spotlighting’ a book(s) already on my shelves, I go through a batch of ‘new reads’ I bought today.

Sadly it’s only a short meaningless Sunday Salon post from me today (do I ever offer anything else :o)) as I’m suffering the fallout of participating in my first 24 Hour Read-a-Thon.
I managed to read three titles in the 24-hour period, way less than a lot of the participants, but it’s three more titles [...]

On the same day that the Booker Prize 2008 is announced, I begin one of the shortlisted books (and possible winner?) as part of my ‘50 Novels’ challenge

Has it really been a week since the last Sunday Salon already? I remember sitting here roughly this same time last weekend wondering what to write about, and here I am a one-week veteran of the Sunday Salon and……err……I’m still wondering what to write about. Well that’s not exactly true. There is one thing I [...]

Read my afterthoughts on the 2003 winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year.