You’ve bought the book and – presuming you’ve avoided the worn Tom Clancy paperback – you want to keep it forever, right? I mean, future generations should know what to read and you’re just the person to tell them. At the very least you want those unread books on your shelf to still be there…

My take on Yann Martell’s smart-aleck project “What is Stephen Harper Reading?” In short: hilarious.

There are, it appears, two kinds of book lovers in this world: the folks who love the library and the folks who don’t. I’m in the latter camp. Other book lovers seem to have a phobia of libraries. They want to own their own books. Besides, librarians are sadists who are just looking for an…

As you all know, I’m an anxious reader who worries about what he’s reading and what he hasn’t read yet. The thing is, I honestly believe that our best books can have a profound effect on our lives and on society. How profound? Somewhere between the quixotic enlightenment dreams of a perfect society and the…

Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84 – New York Times I’ll miss knowing you’re around Mr. Vonnegut. I’ve always loved Slaughterhouse Five, thanks for writing that one. Maybe we can all try and be a little nicer, act more like cousins, in memory of you.