Maeve Binchy has the knack for making stories about ordinary people be very interesting. She is like Anne Tyler in this. Echoes is no...

While he maneuvered to pass a towline to the disabled trawler, a breaker caught the lifeboat broadside.  The boat did what it was designed...

Thanks to a book chain letter I sent out a couple of months ago, at least one book came into my mailbox last week. Thanks go to Avis of S...

I've ignored the blog this weekend to celebrate the arrival of Billie and Ella, The Jazz Cats. We picked them up yesterday from the Oreg...

I'll be hopping around today while I pretend that I do not have a stack of neglected work to attend to. Also, please don't forget ...

  Liz Crain tapped into Portland’s do-it-yourself ethic and agricultural abundance to write her Food Lover's Guide to Portland , an inf...

It's time to get my Guilt List under control. And one thing I can do is pass on to an appreciative reader a book that I do not think I ...

A Geography of Secrets by Frederick Reuss Opening sentence: Driving into work one day, I found myself in a different city. Teaser: I...

I was out of town for a while and happy to come home to find several books had arrived in my absence. I also picked up a short stack on my...

My thanks go to the talented Michele Emrath of Southern City Mysteries for passing on the "I'm a Literacy Builder" award to m...

In The Truth About Obamacare , Sally C. Pipes examines the details of the new health care law and tries to show what its implementation...

Saul Bellow (1915 to 2005) may have been born in Canada, but he was an American treasure. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. ...

"Dorcas hated the fens." -- The Case Has Altered by Martha Grimes. That is, she hated the low, swampy wetlands of Lincolnsh...

This week's Booking Through Thursday question asks: When you travel, how many books do you bring with you? Has this changed since ...

Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes by Carl Hoffman.   (This review was ...

"Drainy was a bug-eyed boy with a shaven head and spaces between his teeth.  He had a collection of little cars and toy bikes made ou...

She Reads and Reads is hosting Mailbox Monday this month. Thanks Avis! We got a couple of coffee table books this week. One belongs to m...

"I never really warmed to Clovis -- he was far too stupid to inspire real affection -- but he always claimed a corner of my heart, l...

"We drove past Tiny Polski's mansion house to the main road, and then the five miles into Northampton, Father talking the whole w...

It's fall and time for another quarterly blog progress report. This is a three part assessment. Part One looked at my book lists. Part T...

Because I seem to be reading books faster than Tuesdays come around, I have another triple teaser this week, from a diverse batch of books. ...