Spring has sprung -- not that it feels like it today -- and it is time for me to see if I've made any progress on my lists.  This is ...

Spring has sprung and it is time for me to see what kind of progress I've made on my lists.  There's no point in being a compulsive...

"Japanese corporations have long used the gentle technique of kaizen to achieve their business goals and maintain excellence." ...

Spring has sprung and it is time for me to check in and see what kind of progress I've made on my lists.  There's no point in being...

This calls for a celebration. I think I'll kick back this afternoon and read a couple of the umpteen books I have going right now. Ka...

"They used to hang men at Four turnings in the old days." -- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. Well, that certainly se...

"The dog looked at him as if it was interested in what he was saying.  Jackson suspected that he was assigning emotions to the dog ...

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When "the man who calls himself David Loogen" moves to Ann Arbor and takes a job editing stories for a murder mystery magazine, ...

"Opening this album is like entering another world." -- The Marvelous Album of Madame B: Being the Handiwork of a Victorian La...

"Leeds: 'Motorway City of the Seventies.'" -- Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson. The first chapter is a fla...

Mid-March, the swales and foothills neither brown nor green, is time to walk an abandoned railroad bed above the Klickitat. Spring comes...

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"An estimated 600 women served during the American Civil War." -- The Girl Who Kicked a Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. ...

"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out ...

Every other Thursday, The Blue Bookcase hosts a " Literary Blog Hop " for blogs "that primarily feature reviews of literar...

The Food of France , Waverley Root's encyclopedic tome, deserves its status as a culinary classic. First published in 1958, updated ...

"A soldier took us to the Honolulu police station at the corner of Merchant Street and Bethel Avenue, along with most of the other ...

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Maps and Shadows is Krysia Jopek's gripping novel based on the true-life travails of the author's father and his family during W...

Bech: A Book is John Updike's novel-in-short-stories about a fictitious American novelist named Henry Bech. It is the first of a tri...

"When I was a young child growing up in Korea, it was said that the image of the fading moon at daybreak, reflected in a pond or stre...

"Everyone has a story." Maps and Shadows by Krysia Jopek.  This is a novel based on the WWII experiences of the author's...

"He looked like a horse with a secret sorrow. He coughed three times, like a horse who, in addition to a secret sorrow, had contracte...