Herb Caen was San Francisco's legendary newspaper columnist. Barnaby Conrad describes Caen's prodigious work product in his intro...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the ...

  Tinkers is a short book, but irritated me in a way that usually takes a longer book to do. I wanted to like it because I liked the ide...

World Without End is the sequel to Ken Follett's spectacular Pillars of the Earth . Pillars takes place in the 1100s, during the c...

As late as March, the Klamath still flowed high and muddy, still churned with rocks and snags and root wads.  In that month, Happy Camp...