FINISHED! This challenge paired perfectly with my Battle of the Prizes Challenge -- British Version -- as well as my reading preferences....

  Oh no! For the first time since I started participating in Mailbox Monday, no books came into my house last week. Not a one. My mailbox i...

"This is a book about some of the things I have loved most in my life: my husband, Paul Child, la belle France ; and the many pleasu...

This challenge dovetails nicely with my Battle of the Prizes Challenges -- both the American Version and the British Version -- as well a...

Best Literary Fiction Reviews 1) Review of Clown Girl by Monica Drake ;  2) Review of Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates ; 3) Review o...

Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays is brilliant and heartbreaking. It packs more raw tragedy into its 214 pages than entire bookshelv...

"You dig a hole in the sandy dirt, and you lower the casket into it." -- Eden Springs by Laura Kasischke. Ooooohhhh . . . A...

This challenge pits winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction against the winners of the National Book Award in the American Version of the...

"What makes Iago evil? some people ask." -- Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion Heroine Maria (pronounced Ma- eye -ah) follow...

He felt that there was something ridiculous in her proposal, and she did seem to him somewhat ridiculous. There was trouble enough in the w...

Thanks to Reading Local , I had a little book money in my jeans this weekend, so stopped by Broadway Books in time to pick up a little s...

George is A Single Man trying to get his life back on track following the death of his lover Jim. Christopher Isherwood’s short novel fo...

This is my organizational post for the Bibliophilic Books Challenge. I am excited about this one, because I thought I had imagined it, ...

The Polysyllabic Spree is a collection of 14 essays that Nick Hornby wrote for the Believer magazine . Described on the cover as, “A h...

This week, Booking Through Thursday asks: Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangeliz...

"One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown aw...

My teasers have been stacking up, so I have three of them today. So this last month was, as I believe you people say, a bust.  I had hig...

Thanks to power-publicist Mary Bisbee-Beek, two books arrived at my house in time for Mailbox Monday .  Even though these are going strai...

Only three books have won both the Man Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Last Orders by Graham Swift in 1996; Midni...

This is the third part of my winter assessment of my 2009 reading progress and 2010 goals. Part One addressed my various lists. Part Two ...

The Snake River divides the northeast corner of Oregon from Idaho and carved Hell’s Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. In 1887,...

"Paris is a big city in the sense that London and New York are big cities and that Rome is a village, Los Angles a collection of vill...

I am not a big challenge person, although I appreciate the effort and hard work that bloggers go to to host so many enticing projects. I a...

"Senator Hugh Blanton addressed the problem as an Old Testament prophet might have done." -- A Very Private Plot by William ...

"He congratulated himself on his foresight in constructing that dipsomaniacal son for the friend who was putting himself up in New Y...

A reader in distress!  My friend is in a quandary over a book her uncle gave her to read. It's not just any book -- it's a 900+ pa...

This book actually arrived a couple of weeks ago, but got lost in the post-Christmas mess in my house, so only made it to my Mailbox Monda...