Not Your Mama's Bookshelf

This Friday is the birthday of my favorite poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. I will probably post another Rilke poem on that day, but when it comes...

Remember last week when I mentioned I was excited to start reading Lev Grossman's new novel, The Magicans ? Well, I only made it one-th...

I hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving and a nice post-holiday weekend! As a bonus, I'm including a link to the AV Club's List of...

In honor of this week's Thanksgiving, I decided to do a list appropriate for the holiday. Here is my list of all the book-related thing...

It's amazing we've made it this far in our Poem of the Week posts without getting to Seamus Heaney. Heaney is one of my favorite po...

This is a new feature here on Not Your Mama's Bookshelf. Every few weeks, some books catch my eye that I want to purchase and read righ...

I know, I know. Really? We're mentioning War and Peace again? But I promise there's a reason for the post today. Because this w...