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My two daughters are quite similar in lots of ways: both gorgeous (obviously), both fearsomely bright and articulate, both charmingly devote...

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Our narrator, who may or may not be called John (he suggests, half-jokingly, that we call him "...

Just a quick follow-up to expand slightly on my point about short novels from the last book post . I knocked together a list of ones that I ...

The Bridge Of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. The eponymous bridge is a fabled and ancient wood and rope bridge of Inca construction ...

Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne. Phileas Fogg is having trouble with the domestic staff at his house. It's not, as y...

You might recall this fun bit of face-recognition software from a couple of years back that purported to tell you how old you looked. I was...

As either a belated Christmas present or an early joint birthday present (their birthdays are only a week apart) our girls recently acquired...

Here's another example (from the Daily Mail ) of a phenomenon you might call "subject slippage" or something similar - a bit ...

The Savage Wedding by Yann Queffélec. Nicole is the daughter of the village baker somewhere in provincial France. She's nearly fourt...

Another author who died recently - though not as a result of the Curse of Electric Halibut as none of his books have featured in this list ...

If there's one thing that unites the octogenarian and nonagenarian novelists of the world, it's grasping Electric Halibut beseeching...

I had those Jehovah's Witnesses round the house again a couple of days ago, a scant six years after their last visit . This particular ...

The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies. So here we are at the college of St. John and the Holy Ghost, affectionately known by its deniz...

As I'm sure most of you know, Twitter, in addition to being a hive of scum and villainy, has its own little unwritten rules and points o...