May 1, 2009 to September 7, 2009 No time like Spring and Summer to catch up on prize-winners! This challenge pits winners of the Pulit...

The 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Olive Kitteridge , a collection of short stories by Elizabeth Strout. The up-to-date list of wi...

A handful of books have won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award -- the two heavyweights of American literature. These do...

I have a couple of idea for reading challenges that I want to host. I'm still pondering the details, but my ideas involve using my Must ...

James Lee Burke is one of the best, but I think his more recent books sometimes rehash the plots of some of the other ones. Crusader'...

I finally figured out how to add the little gadget to show who follows my blog. Since I really do appreciate the people who now only read th...

Gabe at Reading Local has compiled a list of Portland area bookstores , complete with links to their websites. This is a terrific resource ...

I am tickled that Rebecca at Lost in Books gave me this One Lovely Blog Award . Pretty exciting for someone whose visual art talent doesn...

The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction is the now the name for the award formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction. The prize is ...

The April edition of The Internet Review of Books is out -- it has taken me almost a year to figure out that they publish on the 15th of ea...

Anne Tyler is the author of 18 novels, most of which are set in Baltimore. Tyler was born in Minneapolis in 1941 and still lives in Balti...

Trish at Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'? is organizing a "Book Blogger Retreat" for July 18 - 19. This sounded like a lot of fun t...

In The Letter from Death , Lillian Moats personifies Death as the author of a letter explaining how a historical misperception of death ha...

"From the air, through the plastic porthole of a descending plane, Bermuda appears improbable." -- Basil's Dream by Christ...

C. M. Mayo’s The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is the historically accurate, fictionalized account of Emperor Maximilian’s short reig...

Ian McEwan may now be the hottest thing going, but his earlier books are hit or miss. The Company of Strangers ? Creepy. The Cement Garden...

Good Friday! I have always loved Easter weekend, especially when my family gathers to host its traditional "Waifs and Strays" pa...

In celebration of its 60th anniversary, The Book of the Month Club compiled a list of 60 American novels, published between 1926 and 1986...

J.G. from Hotch Pot Cafe recently commented on the conspicuous absence of The Orange Prize winners from my list of Must Read lists. It'...

"To Those It May Concern, That should leave none of you out." - The Letter From Death by Lillian Moats. According to the forwa...

There are too many books vying for my immediate attention right now. I do not like it -- I feel pressured. My plan is to work my way through...

I have updated my Pulitzer Prize Winners list by indicating which books I have read and which are currently on my TBR shelf. I am less than...

It beggars the imagination to think of the sprawling megalopolis of Los Angeles as a frontier town of 4,400.  But when Isaias Hellman ar...

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...