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Wolf Hall is as rich in texture and detail as the sumptuous tapestries Henry VIII hung in his palaces. Hilary Mantel tells the historica...

A few years back, John Kralik found himself in a bad spot. His law firm was struggling, his health was poor, his marriage existed only on...

"It wasn't Archie's fault really." -- The Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. Wodehouse. Snow is falling here in Portl...

Venice is at the top of my armchair travel destinations. It is such a magical city. I love to be there. I love to think about it. And I ...

"He thought intelligence a function of the individual and that groups of persons were intelligent in inverse proportion to their size...

The story of Washington chopping down the cherry tree loomed large in my childhood, but I never think of it as an adult. It took me a minut...

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"If you travel to southeastern Alaska by water, your route will likely include Stephens Passage, a part of the Inside Passage between...

99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 by Anthony Burgess. It was the arrival of 1984 (the year, not the book) that inspired Burge...

You, for instance, coming upon these words not exactly by accident or design. -- from "Coincidence," the first poem in Beca...

"Dear John, Well, if you must commit the artistic indecency of writing about a writer, better I suppose about me that about you....

I've been blurbed! My review of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt by Rulka Langer is quoted on the back of the reprinted edition. ...

Wendy at caribousmom is hosting this fun challenge again this year.  The challenge sign-up post is here . This one runs through Januar...

"Though Champagne plays an important role in the history of France it does not play an important role in the history of French cook...

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I could have guessed before starting Breathing Lessons that the book would involve an ordinary family in Baltimore facing problems in an...

Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts. This is a short book with 10 stories of Great Lakes adventures, inc...

"As far back as the records go, the people of the land now known as France have thought of food in terms of its taste more often than...

"1984 has arrived, but Orwell's glum prophesy has not been fulfilled." -- 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 by An...

"It would have been easy for Brunetti to grow indifferent to the beauty of the city, to walk in the midst of it, looking and not re...

"The body floated face down in the murky water of the canal." -- Death in a Strange Country (1993) by Donna Leon. This is t...

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Classic Spanish Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the Spanish Kitchen by Elisabeth Luard I bought this book on impulse because the book i...

John Berger won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for G , his picaresque novel about the illegitimate son of ...