I am kicking myself for not having a New Year's Eve party this year. I never have a New year's Eve party. But that is why I should...

Blue River is the story of two estranged brothers, semi-derelict Lawrence and his successful younger brother Edward. When Lawrence show...

"Sometimes it seemed to me that you had planned your own life, Lawrence, that you had sown it in rows like a field, so that later, in...

Last week was Christmas, so of course many books came into our house. But we are on the road today, so this post is a pre-scheduled place...

"On a Sunday morning in the June of my thirty-first year I open the front door of our house looking for the newspaper and find a man ...

How to Save Your Own Life is the sequel to Erica Jong’s debut novel, Fear of Flying . This one finds heroine – and Jong’s literary alter...

No book blogging today because Hubby and I have taken the day off work and are having a Day of Christmas Romance before heading out of town...

Jon Meacham packs a lot into his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House . Focusing on Jackson...

"He'd personally overseen the transfer of nearly six million dollars to Allstrong Security in the past two weeks and apparentl...

While doing some Christmas shopping, I picked out a little something for myself, which arrived in time for Mailbox Monday . Everyday D...

"On a Wednesday evening in early December, Dismas Hardy, standing at the thin line of dark cherry in the light hardwood floor of his ...

A week that included Christmas shopping with a friend for her fisherman husband, reading Erica Jong, and some seasonally-induced nostalgia f...

The Italian Lover is a literary mash-up with a Hollywood spin – the heroine from Robert Hellenga’s debut novel, The Sixteen Pleasures , f...

The December issue of the Internet Review of Books is posted now and is packed full of worthwhile reviews.  In addition to 11 other non-f...

" We deserve the blame for not picking ourselves up and walking away.  We think we are buying security with our slavery -- and then, ...

Since I posted several reviews of Early Reviewer books, I am apparently out of the LibraryThing dog house. At least enough to get a book f...

The first couple of pages of Christina Sunley’s debut novel, The Tricking of Freya , seem a little awkward. But once it becomes clear tha...

"It looked like war." -- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (referring to the 1832 secession thr...

The Fire is a complicated adventure novel involving a centuries-long search for a famous chess set and the solution to its mysteries. P...

"I left my husband on Thanksgiving Day." -- How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong. After working diligently on my Guilt L...

"Solarin gripped his little daughter's mittened hand firmly in his own." -- The Fire by Katherine Neville  Neville wrot...

It was going to be a difficult shot, a huge scene to mount, and she still didn't have written permission to use the piazza, though the...

Only one book came into my house last week for Mailbox Monday (other than Christmas gifts for other people). Bend Sinister by Vladamir...