BOOK THOUGHTS Women Authors March is Women's History Month, so I thought I'd highlight some of the women authors sitting on my TBR s...

Erica Jong's Top 100 20th Century Novels by Women At the turn of the Millennium, there was a flurry of "Top 100" book lists. T...

JANUARY WRAP UP One of my bookish New Year's resolutions was to try to post monthly wrap ups of the books I read each month. I haven...

In response to the publication of the Modern Library’s list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century , Erica Jong wrote an article for The N...

GREAT VALENTINE GIFT IDEA! Magical realism and baseball are two things I steer clear of in novels, but Things Invisible to See by Nanc...

THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the boo...

There are times when a full-sized book list is just too much; when the Top 100, a Big Read, or all the Prize winners seem like too dau...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia, who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it in...

It is hard to review a book that I so horribly misinterpreted that I ruined it for myself. Shirley Jackson's dark masterpiece, We H...

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. -- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. This is a crazy weird book. Very funny i...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia at A girl and her books (fka The Printed Page), who graciously hosted ...

In response to the publication of the Modern Library’s list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century , Erica Jong wrote an article for The ...