Summer is finally here in Portland, so it is time for my quarterly, three-part, progress assessment. The first part addressed the book li...

"The English woman was still looking at me when I entered the hallway. Perusing me in a fashion as if I was not there to see her sta...

I only got one new book last week, and it did not come in the mail. I found it at a garage sale. So I have another very short list for Mail...

Probably no cookbook maven inspires the love/hate reaction that Martha Stewart does.  I don't think I am alone in this. I have at leas...

"I thought I'd been to Africa." -- from the Prologue to Small Island by Andrea Levy. I've been hearing very good t...

Summer is finally here in Portland, so it is time for my quarterly, three-part, progress assessment. The first part addressed the book lis...

The Secret Scripture is the entwined story of Roseanne McNulty, a 100-year-old mental patient, and Dr. Grene, who is desultorily trying t...

"A bossy, yellow-haired blonde named Mazie P. Gordon is a celebrity on the Bowery. In the nickel-a-drink saloons and in the all night...

Liz Crain is the author of the brand new, must-have book: The Food Lover's Guide to Portland . I have been dreaming about this book ...

Only one book came into my house last week, so this is a very short Mailbox Monday post.  This is probably a good thing, because I must rea...

Summer starts this week, but it's hard to tell here in rainy Portland. The sun is supposed to arrive in the next few days, so in anticip...

A Week in December follows a loosely linked network of Londoners – most of them connected by an invitation to a fancy dinner party on Sat...