BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS After our cold, rainy spring, summer is finally here in Portland. Of course, by next week, we will all complain i...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Do you read books in translation? Every time I read a book in translation I vow to read more. I’m a lunkish mon...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Welcome back to Book Beginnings on Fridays, where participants share the first sentence (or so) of the books we a...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Happy Independence Day weekend to my Friends in the USA! I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July celebration line...

MAILBOX MONDAY Well, isn’t this divine? Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the Queens of the Golden Age of mysteries, along with Agatha Christie,...