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Anyone have a book store to recommend in the London area?? I collect antiquarian books (natural history and children's literature, mostly). I usually go to Peter Harrington in Chelsea, but wondering if anyone has any other suggestions. I'm hoping to pick up some books while I'm in London next...

I finished Bohumil Hrabal's "Too Loud a Solitude" a week or so ago, and I'm just now feeling ready to talk about it. It's a short book, easy to read in an afternoon. I don't think I've ever come across anything quite like it. Beautiful prose, even in translation (I don't read...

Well, no - but if I say it enough, maybe I'll believe it. Actually, it's probably hot enough to fry the proverbial egg on the sidewalk today, and I'm at home with an anemic air conditioner that doesn't work well on its best days, of which this is definitely not. So, I'm reading "Tragedy &...

Any suggestions for good summer reading? I'm between books right now; just finished Carolyn See's "Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America", which I liked very much. I notice that when I've really enjoyed a book I have trouble getting started on another one, because I have this feeling...

One of the things that I like to do when I'm traveling is go to book stores. I live in Southern California, where most of the book stores are of the Barnes and Noble/Borders type - big chains that all have the same stuff. Some exceptions to this of course, but I love discovering off the beaten...

Hi, my name is Janine and I'm addicted to print. It started small, just a quick paperback at the airport, or thumbing through a magazine at the doctor's office. Nothing I couldn't handle - I told myself that I could stop any time I wanted to. Before long I was carrying a book in my...