Book Chase

  I can’t vouch for the methodology behind the survey that generated this chart, but it pretty much reflects the numbers I’ve been seeing ov...

  Louise Penny made me do something today, I never dreamed I would be doing in a million years: abandon her latest novel, The Black Wolf , a...

  Big Five publisher Hatchette has decided to pull Mia Ballard’s Shy Girl from British bookstore shelves, and will not be publishing the nov...

I have been a reader for over 70 years now, and my opinion of the publishing industry has never been lower than it is today.  I realize this...

  What I miss most about having half-a-dozen favorite bookstores to make regular visits to is the pleasure of shutting out the rest of the w...

  I finally found the time and energy to make it out to a couple of bookstores today. There are three good ones relatively near me, but I ra...

  Mick Herron jacket photo I'm nearing the end of Mick Herron's The Secret Hours and the book is fast approaching its climax. But Mi...

  Some of you may have noticed that I keep separate bibliography tabs at the top of my Home Page for ten favorite authors of mine - along wi...

  With the exception of my college years, I spent the first 60 years of my reading life treating books as if they were my first born childre...

I very clearly remember the feeling of stepping into a Barnes & Noble bookstore with a feeling that I was certain to leave the store wit...

This has unexpectedly turned into a weekend of very little reading...but this time,  I'm OK with that. It's taken several hours of w...

  I have a question for everyone that would be best presented as a poll question, but since Blogger software doesn't make that an easy t...

I stumbled upon a 2018 article from The Atlantic this morning that reminded me of exactly why I began Book Chase back in 2007. Even before ...

This is one of those days that I'm filled with mixed emotions, even to the point of not being able to focus on the things I need to be d...

I spent a few hours this week eliminating some of the aspects of the internet that can always be guaranteed to ruin my mood, if not my whole...

The 3 shelves beneath each of these groups of 4 are equally stuffed beyond capacity. Do you guys ever get the feeling that, even though you ...

As evidenced by the above photo, I'm a big fan of Philip Roth's novels and nonfiction - and I have been since the late 1960s. The bo...

I find myself fighting the clock this week thanks to the several library books with short time-fuses that I'm still reading. I really do...

I gave up on most television channels years ago with the exception of a few exceptional series, the rapidly dwindling list of sports I still...

  In an attempt to shake the mood I've been in for the last three or four days, I decided to take a look at how my reading is likely to ...