Although this is called "a Fearless Jones" novel, the second novel in this series, Fear of the Dark , is really a book about Fea...

In her accessible "citizen’s guide" to health care reform, Sally Pipes examines The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care and...

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Set in mid-Twentieth Century Tennessee, Peter Taylor's Pulitzer-winning A Summons to Memphis is a lovely novel of manners that tea...

When I was compiling my French Connection list, I included books from a Paris-based mystery series by Cara Black -- part of the fantasti...

This is the list of books I read in 2005, in the order that I read them. For an explanation of my rating system, see here . Going over thi...

I occasionally go through armchair traveler spells when I like to read books about France -- never books in French, as I am a definite mo...

Artscatter – a terrific arts and culture blog that just celebrated its first blogoversary – stirred up some punctuation passion the othe...

Living in Oregon, it seems like a worthwhile goal to read books by Oregonians or about life in Oregon. According to Portland Monthly mag...

"Once upon a time there was a little girl name Alice Green who lived on what people who don’t know any better would call a farm, but ...

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut may be justifiably famous and a classic of all times, but it was not a book for me. I had avoided re...

After my recent post about author Julia Spencer-Fleming and her Clare Fergusson mystery series, I received a nice email from Ms. Spencer-Fl...

"Few issues in American politics capture more attention – and passion – than health care." The Top Ten Myths of American Health...

My birthday was this week, and I am happy (but not surprised) that I got books for presents. My sister gave me Kristin Lavransdatter by No...

. There is plenty to love about Debra Ollivier's Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl , but you have to ...

Two years ago, I set out determined to finish the Modern Library’s list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century – a list I had been lacka...

Gilead , Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer-winning novel, is surprisingly entertaining for an epistolary novel consisting of only one, lo...

Oregon's 150th birthday is this Saturday, February 14th -- Valentine's Day. And what better way is there to say "I love you...

"How to sum up in one book the particularities and essential qualities of the French girl?" Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to ...

The Cascade Policy Institute is sponsoring a contest to promote school choice in Oregon. Here is the description from the contest web sit...

Apparently my review of The Amish Cook at Home had the book's co-author, Kevin Williams, rolling his eyes . I was amazed at the spike i...

"The New World was colonized under an international legal principle that is known today as the Doctrine of Discovery." Native ...

With all the dozens of book give-a-ways hosted by generous book bloggers, I don't usually keep track or get involved. But I want a cop...

So I admit, my initial reaction to seeing The Amish Cook at Home was the culturally insensitive question, “Where else would they cook?” I...

"Russ Van Alstyne had just gotten a tug on his line when he saw the old lady get up from between the headstones she had been trimming...

  Blackbird, Farewell is the seventh novel in Robert Greer’s mystery series featuring bail bondsman C.J. Floyd. The specs look good – s...