As I find and visit so many wonderful book blogs, I see that many other bibliophiles share my compulsion to follow a "Must Read" b...

Thanks to a note on Reading Local yesterday, I visited a wonderful new bookstore in my neighborhood. Actually, the bookstore -- Ampersand ...

The set up for Ann Patchett's Orange Prize winner, Bel Canto , is attention-grabbing -- an international group of businessmen and d...

Inspired by Lezlie's articulate and thoughtful mission statement on Books 'N Border Collies , I have re-assessed my priorities and ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 107 times to 111 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015. I have a goal of reading at lea...

I have been smitten with Richard Ford ever since he introduced me to his Everyman hero Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter . I followed...

I finished the first of my Colorful Reading Challenge books -- Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke . This is the third in Burke's D...

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a literary one-off, so hard to categorize. The first half is a long poem by the fictional poet John S...

What a wonderful, great, big, shaggy dog of a novel Humbolt's Gift is! While litigating with his ex-wife, being bullied by a B-team...

This is the list of books I read in 2004, in the order that I read them. For an explanation of my rating system, see here . The highlight o...

"On my thirteenth birthday, my father took me to lunch at the Poodle Dog, one of San Francisco's oldest restaurants, the kind of...

There is a debate going on over on LibraryThing about whether listening to an audio book "counts" as reading the book. (Those who ...

In Native America Discovered and Conquered , law professor Robert J. Miller examines how the international law concept now referred to as...

I just finished Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse this morning. I was listening to it while unpacking boxes this weekend, so Hubby kept...

It was a year ago today that I started this Rose City Reader blog and wrote my first post . I did it on a whim, hoping to have a place to ...

Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander is the fictionalized tale of Rasputin's last week, as told by his daughter. While some hi...

"This book grew out of a simple observation: writers like to drink." Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great Ame...

Are you a parent or grandparent of an Oregon K-12th grade student? Do you know any families with K-12 children? There are only a few days ...

The March issue of The Internet Review of Books is up and, as always, there are several interesting non-fiction and fiction reviews. Also, ...

OK, I generally avoid challenges because I have so many reading lists going that I do not like to fracture my attention any more than it alr...

The one thing that really stuck in my head from reading Greg Bell's Water the Bamboo book is the idea of using affirmations to change b...

This list is the results of a 2006 poll of British librarians conducted by the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), in which l...

The Jane Austen Book Club did not deliver like I hoped it would. The six main characters are the members of a book club established to ...