Although I have not made any progress, so far, on my own challenge, others have. I want to thank everyone who has been participating. We ...

"In the mid-to-late 1990s, while living mostly in Moscow, I managed to travel through a good part of the former Soviet Bloc." ...

"One fog-lidded dawn in summertime a city girl, whose name was Hester, stood near the whipping post on the Tunxis village green with ...

"Had these women, hair carved by beauticians, bodies encased in God knows what steely underclothes, ever felt what I felt? . . . If th...

While waiting for a jury last Friday (we are still waiting today), I went for a walk to stave off the jitters and, not surprisingly, ended...

Second Wind starts off like a typical Dick Francis novel: A random assortment of characters shows up at a Stately Home of England for a...

Ex Libris is Anne Fadiman’s “Confessions of a Common Reader,” a collection of essays on books, reading, and related foibles. She writes...

I am trying to be productive today while waiting for a jury to come back with a "Phase I" verdict in the trial I've been worki...

This week's Booking Through Thursday question asks for a preference between plots or stream-of-conscious writing. That's an easy ...

"This is the story of an eye, and how it came into its own." Leaving Brooklyn by Lynn Sharon Schwartz (nominated for the PEN/F...

Laura Kasischke’s moody novella, Eden Springs , is a historical mystery of sorts, based the true story of a spooky religious colony on the...

"It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf.  On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volu...

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...