A Reading Odyssey

Event updates, book reviews, and assorted book-related thoughts from the staff (and guests!) of the Odyssey Bookshop, a locally- and family- owned/operated independent bookshop in the agricultural and sometimes weird Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Three Mini Book Reviews

Frances & Bernard by Carlene Bauer. Has a letter ever changed your life? When Frances and Bernard meet at an artists’ colo...

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Book Review: A Tale for the TIme Being by Ruth Ozeki

For my job, I receive books every day with an editor's letter tucked inside, exhorting the 101 reasons why I should read that parti...

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Book Review: After Visiting Friends by Michael Haines

(It's not your eyes--the photo on the cover is intentionally blurry) Another friend in bookselling recently made a comment on her b...

Monday, February 4, 2013

Book Review: You Before Me by Jojo Moyes

Jojo Moyes' new novel Me Before You should come with a warning: do NOT pick this book up unless you have a box of tissues by your s...

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Book Review: Home Is a Roof Over a Pig

I find that most memoirs fall into one of two categories: a good story told by an okay writer, or an okay story told by a good writer, ...

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Cookbook: Sweet & Easy Vegan

Chronicle Books has a great blog (check it out if you haven't) . I loved their post on Sweet & Easy Vegan and tried two recipes fro...

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores

I've been a follower for a long time (and by "long" I guess I mean about two years or so) of Jen Campbell's This Is N...

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