You may have noticed–if you’ve been here for more than 50 seconds–thatwearekindofbookpeople (see also: hard core bibliophiles). As such, we tend to have, well, quite a large number of [...]
This past weekend’s building activity added a much-needed 38 linear feet of shelving to our little two-room domicile (bringing the dedicated book space to just under 50 yards, or half a football field), which means for the first time in a long time there are no books living in boxes [...]
I don’t quite recall where we found this 1934 Modern Library edition of Joyce’s magnum opus, but I have no doubt that P snatched it up in a heartbeat and probably clung to it tightly until it arrived at its home on our shelves. I suppose I shouldn’t be [...]
You may or may not have noticed, but I’ve been quite taken with information of a Today-In-History nature, but seeing as my academic interests more or less boil down to historiography, I make no real apology for said [...]
Tomas Alfredson’s big screen version of John le Carré’s (totally brilliant) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy doesn’t open in the States until December 9th which means there is absolutely time for you to pick up the novel and spend the better part of an afternoon [...]
