...must come to an end, including this blog. I've realized recently that it has run its course, and when I'm blogging about books I...

Yes, I read  Fifty Shades of Grey . After about four months of waiting, my turn finally came up at the library, and against my better judgem...

Yes, I fell off the wagon. But I blame the books -- after The Power of Habit , I read Elif Shafak's Forty Rules of Love , and it was so ...

Probably the two books I was most excited about reading this summer were Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit and Jonah Lehrer's I...

The title of the Power of Habit  says it all – habits are powerful, and  author Charles Duhigg explores how habits affect individuals, com...

When I was in elementary school, an unremarkable woman named Betty Mahmoody was married to a crazy person. He also happened to be Muslim, ...

When in Rome, do as the Romans do, goes the old adage -- and when in Rome, read their books. While I am still deep in the throes of Game o...

By the end of a Storm of Swords , the third book in George R.R. Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire , I felt like I'd g...

I don't generally read mysteries or crime novels. There's so much death, destruction and terror in the world that I generally avoi...