A girl and an older woman were walking along a metaled pathway. --  The Anti-Death League by Kinglsey Amis . Kingsley Amis is one of my...

In the wine world, the self-important Robert Parker , with his comb-over and air of gravitas, has come to represent fustiness and, worse, ...

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In September 1982, Moe Momtazi sat on a motorcycle with his heart in his throat and his hands gripping the waist of a drug runner. -- Vood...

In my 61 years on this planet I have come to accept that almost everything can change. -- from the Introduction to Real Women, Real Wisdom:...

Gillon lay in bed with her eyes closed. -- Girl From the South by Joanna Trollope. I only reacently started reading Trollope's boo...

Cold fog quiets the birds and shifts like hot steam above Lake Windsor to the east.  Minutes earlier hailstones sliced past Annie's bedr...

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Fall is in the air! I am running out of time to finish my challenges. To keep track of my reading for the year, I like to do quarterly blo...

  Fall is in the air and I am filled with all that back-to-school enthusiasm I always get this time of year, even though my school days are...

Today is the first day of autumn.  Although it is actually warm and sunny here in Portland, fall is in the air.  Time for me to check in and...

Rebecca Skloot's  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a non-fiction account of the woman whose cancer cells – which have been ...

JUST RELEASED!  AVAILABLE TODAY ! An old, metal-framed photograph is placed on the coffee table, and Annie has the feeling it was set there...

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  The New York art world feted William Boyd on the 1998 publication Nat Tate: An American Artist, 1928 – 1960 . David Bowie hosted the l...

In the latter days of July in the year 185__, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester...

Annie lifts her father's old binoculars off the porch. -- Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed.  I've been waiting for this...

[Deborah] was terrified that she might have cancer, and consumed with the idea that researchers had done -- and were perhaps still doin...

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