Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud

Rating: 5* of five I'm rating others' contributions to the book, not my own. If resistance is futile, like I've been told ov...

"Will this cause an author distress?" is an unimportant consideration, or should be, to a reviewer, a reader, or a website, in rel...

Goodreads, I hardly knew ye. I joined in 2010, and I became an active member in 2011. Less than two years later, I’m beginning the proces...

So I got my first nastygram from the censorship board at Orwell Enterprises, Inc, a wholly useless tentacle of Amazon: Hello Richard, Yo...

LOLITA VLADIMIR NABOKOV Everyman's Library $26.00 hardcover, available now Rating: 5* of five The Publisher Says : Awe and exhi...

My review of THE TRANSPARENT SOCIETY is up. So is my blood pressure. In the ongoing waiting game Goodreads is playing, hoping users w...

How Many Loads Have U Taken 2nite? You're open 24/7 if ya know what I mean You taken so many loads damn you're a machine... Thin...

CHRISTIAN NATION FREDERIC C. RICH W.W. Norton $25.95 hardcover, available now Rating: 4.5 appalled, terrified stars of five It...

ELLA MINNOW PEA MARK DUNN Anchor Books $15.95 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.9* of five The Publisher Says : There are two book...

♡KarLynP♡, a Goodreader, posted this message on the Feeedback thread that threatens to swallow the internet due to its length. "The f...

It's Banned Books Week, and I blogged about a related Censorship issue on Shelf Inflicted . Most of us who read more than one or two b...