His work is amazing ... it's all such a great satire on reality. I haven't yet bought his last book, The Shepherd's Crown ... hope to get it soon.

I think the best way to start is to have parents read TO their kids. It associates reading with something pleasant and that feeling carries over as they grow up. How to get older kids and adults into reading? That, I do not know. Too often by then they associate reading with the "chore" of...

The last series I read that sent me running to the store for the next book as soon as I'd finished an earlier one was the Harry Potter series ... but The Last Policeman trilogy, by Ben H. Winters, is doing the same thing. It's narrated by Detective Hank Palace, who is a police officer in New Hampshi...

Hi, I've just signed up here and I'm looking forward to meeting people and talking about books! I'm a female nearing retirement, and I have at the moment about six boxes of unread books (don't ask how many "already read" books I've got!) I read just about anything, although I really like h...