Neither Kathryn Borel nor her father is the most psychically stable of individuals when they set off on a two-week wine tasting adventure ...

I am reading wine books these days and have teasers from two of them: The pale French morning sun blundered through the airport windows....

Books actually came to me in the mail last week, so this is a legitimate Mailbox Monday list. Beautiful Maria of My Soul by Oscar Hijue...

A glorious gleaming glittering October afternoon in the red clay hills of Dundee, Oregon, where hawks float by with writhing snakes in the...

Most doughnut-making petty crooks in Spokane don’t have to keep an eye out for mafia assassins. But Vince Camden is in the witness protec...

"When it comes to champagne and our family, my father has only one absolute rule:  We do not drink it when we are sad." Corked...

This week's Booking Through Thursday question asks: Are your book choices influenced by friends and family? Do their recommendations ...

"Then Inna told Bilhah to take Rachel's place so she could catch the baby; perhaps the birth blood would rouse Rachel's womb ...

Two books did come into my house last week in time for Mailbox Monday and In My Mailbox .  I got Roger's Version by John Updike and Pa...

Congratulations to Caitlin at chaotic compendiums for being the first participant to complete the 2010 Battle of the Prizes, American Ver...

Gormenghast is the second volume in Mervyn Peake’s trilogy about Titus Groan, the 77th Earl of Gormenghast. In Titus Groan , the first v...

"We have been lost to each other for so long." -- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. This is our Book Club book for March. I kn...

This week's Booking Through Thursday question asks about not finishing books: So … you’re halfway through a book and you’re hating i...

Frances Mayes did not spend one year traveling around the world and then writing about it in A Year in the World . She spend five or so ye...

"The therapist was terribly skinny and B.D. had the fantasy of fattening her up to a proper size. There was the old joke of getting bo...

"She was born peculiar, or so she thought." -- The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison. This is one book from my Guilt Lis...

I fell into a blogging black hole the past few days, only getting back here in time for Mailbox Monday . The problem was a garage sale. M...