Notes From the Shire

Many have never heard of this undeciphered text, but the Voynich Manuscript is one of the great enduring linguistic mysteries...

What can children learn by coming to the bookstore, besides how to select a book...

 This past fall ShiresPress published Lady Lucy's Quest.  Lucy is the story of a feisty young girl who wants to be a knight in the Middle Ages.

Hola from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where it is summer and 80 degrees!

Where does one begin in describing the Saunders novel Lincoln in the Bardo other than to say that the phrase “matter light blooming phenomenon” will never be the same again. Wait, you've never heard of “matter light blooming phenomenon”? Well, maybe that goes to show us something about Saunders brilliance; he crafts entirely original worlds, parallel to our own but with language and physical properties completely distinct yet fully, unquestionably real within the realm he creates.

Booktopia 2018 is only a few months away...