My family was in town for Easter, and there were several books found in Easter Baskets. Just in time for Mailbox Monday . Mine was One Go...

I never write in books. Underlining, highlighting, and marginalia are not for me. I like my books to be straight of spine and clean of pa...

"When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading." Fr...

Inspired by the Geneva scientists who successfully smashed atoms at high speed this week, I have decided to devote this blog to physics. ...

Spring has sprung.  The pink trees are blooming and Easter is on the way. It is time to assess what bookery bloggery progress I've made ...

"Had she not enough to do at Cold Comfort without there being a genius named Mybug staying a mile away from the farm who would probab...

I am still in trial (which means I am still whining about being in trial), but a couple of books still managed to make it into my house in ...

I can't resist a list. So when I saw this "Top 10" event on Random Ramblings , I was sucked in.  I enjoy a good series, us...

There is a line around the Portland metropolitan area called the Urban Growth Boundary – a controversial land use tool designed to contro...

Spring has sprung.  The pink trees are blooming and Easter is on the way. It is time to assess what bookery bloggery progress I've mad...

"The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few wee...

The War of the Worlds is a perennial favorite. Every couple of decades, its popularity is regenerated with a new adaptation, most famous...

Spring has sprung.  The pink trees are blooming and Easter is on the way. It is time to assess what bookery bloggery progress I've made...

"That's what I crave: meaningful places.  No one like a convert -- poor li'l L.A. boy, I'm a big fan, an aficionado, of t...

I had such a hectic trial week last week that I comforted myself with an order from amazon that arrived in time for Mailbox Monday . I s...

I love my 1968 edition of the New Casserole Cookbook ! It gives a little description of the dish or tells a story about it, then tells you...

Thanks go to Art Scatter for giving me the Prolific Blogger Award. Mr. Scatter managed to write a clever and engaging post about a blo...

Few debut novels are as polished and engaging as The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips. Set in the 1930s in Depression-ravaged Alabama, ...

I had hoped to keep up with daily posts while in trial, but things are going so fast and furious that blog posts are going to be sporadic. ...

"I walked all the way around Portland, along the invisible line called the Urban Growth Boundary." City Limits: Walking Por...