Nelson DeMille's Cathedral may be the best thriller ever written. Big words, but it's hard to think of another so well construct...

This book celebrates the small towns of the Northwest as places to spend time and explore. -- from the author's Introduction to Disco...

  Drood is Dan Simmons' creative reinterpretation of the literary rivalry between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins . The two autho...

Max wondered if Miss Pitchford had been alluding -- in her blushing, genteel, old-world way -- to the true nature of the relationship betw...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia at A girl and her books (fka The Printed Page), who graciously hosted i...

I love Halloween. Halloween done my way, that is, which means nothing scary and nothing ugly. I like pretty, cute, and vintage Halloween --...

We have had one of the best autumns here in Portland -- glorious leaves, crisp weather, not as much rain as usual.  My neighborhood has gone...

  "The tea has got cold." -- Cathedral by Nelson DeMille. A deceptively benign beginning for a story that takes off like a ...

Wanda Batton-Smythe, head of the Women's Institute of Nether Monkslip, liked to say she was not one to mince words. -- Wicked Autumn ...

Pilar Martinez stumbled into her mother's apartment, which had once been a church in El Segundo Barrio in Downtown El Paso. -- From Thi...

Two teasers this week, from two books I received from OSU Press . But if I say "the old Hackleman place," his face lights up w...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia at A girl and her books (fka The Printed Page), who graciously hosted i...

The Booker Prize is awarded each year for a "full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland . ...

I ranched in the heart of Oregon's outback for nearly three decades. -- from the Prologue to Where the Crooked River Rises: A High Dese...

Tables -- sheets of plywood, actually, set atop saw horses -- line the center of the Stehekin Community Hall that on Sundays serves as th...

If you really want to see something horrifying, try shipping a cupcake.  Trust me, it's not pretty. -- Cakespy Presents Sweet Treats fo...