This week's Booking Through Thursday asks about grammar: In honor of National Grammar Day … it IS “March Fourth” after all … do you ...

Where Angels Fear to Tread is a gem with too many facets to appreciate fully at first inspection. E. M. Forster packed so much into his...

"Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us." -- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forst...

I've been so busy getting ready for a trial that I don't think I would even notice if something came to my mailbox. But I have a sh...

"Tucked as it is in a Michigan woods thick with tall maple and ash, the Think House eddies with chill in winter, and remains too-coo...

Portland Noir is a collection of original short stories that is all over the map -- if the map is of the Rose City. The stories are set ...

Julie Smith won the 1991 Edgar Award for New Orleans Mourning , the first in what became her Skip Langdon series. A former debutante and...

"They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off --  Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Harrington herself." -- Where Angels Fear to ...

A. J. Cronin (1896 to 1981) was a prolific mid-century author who wrote more than 20 novels, many which were made into movies or television...

"She's  a touch thick, not quite shed of her winter fat, but she wears her flesh with oblivious self-assurance.  I have no doubt ...

Thanks mostly to the Oregon State University Press , I had a very full mailbox last week and a long list for Mailbox Monday. Jumptown: T...

I am kicking myself for not signing up for this last year because I read enough books to meet the requirements. So I signed up this year fo...

Three Loves is A. J. Cronin's second novel, first published in 1932. It tells the engrossing, ultimate tragic, story of the three lov...

"I wonder how people think of Portland from the outside." -- From the Introduction to Portland Noir , edited by Kevin Sampsell...

James Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy is justly lauded as a milestone in American literature, a monument to a new "naturalist...

Fishes & Dishes is a collection of recipes and stories by sisters Kiyo and Tomi Marsh and friend Laura Cooper, with contributions fr...

The February edition of the Internet Review of Books is live now. It looks like an amazing edition, packed with lots of great reviews. I ...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is an incredible novel, but it is not a book for me.  I had avoided reading this famous book be...

Her heart leaped and abruptly she turned as the door swung open and Lennox entered. His face, set already to an unusual severity -- it was...

I need some blog help! When I switched to my own blog address, everything transferred except my blog roll. I had been meaning to update i...

Whew! Busy week! I have a long Mailbox Monday list. First, I got Hubby a nice book for Valentine's Day (despite his zombie movie ): C...