It’s Tuesday and you decide to buy a new book series, planning to get through them all by Sunday. By Thursday, you are on page forty of second book and wonder what happened to your life. It’s not normaly a question of enthusiasm; more often than not, it’s one of logistics. Binge reading isn’t treated […]

I feel like it’s a contemporary social menace: That sense of panic when you realise that your buddy is on chapter twelve and you’re still struggling to get past the prologue. Buddy reads are exciting because of that mutual enthusiasm; they’re also accountable! But what happens if one person wants to slow down or go […]

Here’s the rereader’s conundrum: You pick up a book published three years ago, and you don’t know where the hell it went. You recall broad strokes of the story, maybe a single great sentence, or shape of ending, but that middle part are foggy. Why does this occur? Memory decays, and it is most destructive […]

This was prepared for Book Club Night. If you’re not ready for it, your book club night is going to stink. It will be you and a group of friends talking through one character’s trouble. Everyone else will have read the entire thing but you are only up to page forty. Panic sets in. What […]