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Just in time for Valentine's Day tomorrow ~~ a list of the best love stories of all-time. So nice to see classics such as Pride & Prejudice and Jane Eyre listed among current favorites like the Twilight series and Nicholas Sparks novels.

Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, acclaimed as one of the finest writers of the English language and one whose novels have become enduring classics. Did you know that his novels have never been out of print?

If you don't have the time to delve into some of his longer works (Bleak House and Little Dorritt come to mind), we have DVDs of the excellent productions from Masterpiece Classics at the library.

The Morgan Library in NYC will be wrapping up its exhibit honoring Mr. Dickens on February 12th. 

Some of the best books we've read this past year have been from first-time authors -- Vaclav and Lena, The Night Circus, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Rules of Civility -- to name but a few. I love reading debut novels and discovering new 'voices' from an unknown authors. BookBrowse has a list of 12 debut authors to check out this month. I have The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey at home now and can already tell it's a real page-turner.

Have you ever wanted to recommend a book to someone but weren't sure how to pronounce the authors' name? Well, I can tell you that I used to have no clue how to pronounce John Lescroart until I found this article on how to pronounce those tricky author names from BookBrowse.

By the way, it's Less-kwah, in case you were wondering ...