Our last book of 2013, done no favours by its hideous cover. What did we think of it? We...

Fascinating collaboration between Maria Popva and paper-sculptor Kelli Anderson for the New York Public Library:   Lovely project, I wish I...

Never mind that Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman (I would think he would be great, wouldn't you?...

Not quite our lowest-scoring book ever, that position I trust will always be held by The Finkler Question. But...

Don't you just hate it when they put those stickers on the cover? Imagine the poor cover designer, slaving...

A little bit of dash comes to What Katy Read courtesy of Diana Vreeland. Here's what we learned. (Reviews...

Hard to say why I found this long novel quite so exasperating. Maybe it's because for all it spans...

By Ben Barret-Forrest: (With thanks to Amanda for the...

A magazine that thinks it's a bookmark. Or a bookmark that thinks it's a magazine. Sweet, either...

"Oh my God, I see it, I see it!" 'What's so interesting about that big ugly fish', you might...

Hard to write about, as I liked Rock and Hard Places by Andrew Mueller so much I almost immediately...

Book design is a slow process. Last summer I designed a book for Thames & Hudson, A Year in...

We thought it was time What Katy Read tackled some poetry, and so we read the winner of this...

Something Amanda spotted currently doing the online...

Nice comparison of US and UK cover designs from 2012 here. I love this kind of thing; it's always...

Quite simply the wisest and most reassuring book I've read in a long time, written by someone who, it...

I love bookshops and I love to buy things when I'm there, but I'm also a frequent Amazon customer....

One thing you can say about us at What Katy Read, we do like a nice apocalypse. Reviews and...

I confess I didn't actually manage to finish in time for book club this month, but the others did,...

Book no. 2 of 2013, given to me by my sister. Turns out instead of grumbling at my husband...

Nice Guardian article about this here. Sad to hear the Book Arts course at LCC might close. I have...

To make a note of everything I read this year. And so, no. 1, a P.G. Wodehouse my mum...

Reviews and scores for Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel over on the main site. We're all a...

I could write a long boring list of excuses as to why it has taken me so long to...

I don't know what I was expecting – normally New Yorker profiles are illuminating in their sheer length and...

My sister bought this for a friend, but made the mistake of leaving it at my house so it...

  via the book inscriptions project An interesting question, and an interesting article by Amanda Katz for NPR on the subject...

Marriage, sweet marriage... Actually 12 years, for me – coincidentally – but who's counting. Meanwhile for book club we...