As soon as I completed chemotherapy, I began to write. -- from the Author's Note to Who in This Room: The Realities of Cancer, Fish, a...

The European Reading Challenge January 1, 2012 to January 31, 2013 TAKE THE GRAND TOUR Welcome to the European Reading Challenge – where...

2012 will be the fourth year I've hosted this Battle of the Prizes Challenge here at Rose City Reader. This challenge pits winners of...

Over the years the mountain has been host to a range of unique climbing feats and stories not readily found on other Cascadian peaks.  In ...

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Aaron Benham sits at his desk hearing the wrong voices.  -- The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams. This was the 1975 winner of the ...

On this Big Shopping Day, it seems appropriate to feature two books that I think would make great Christmas presents for the Oregonians or O...

David Lodge is a British author who writes substantive, entertaining novels about people coming to terms with the changing world, such a...

It is gravely forbidden for PAP officers to talk to Westerners and would likely be an imprisonable or court martial offense to talk to jour...

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  Laurence "Tubby" Passmore has a sexually active, but otherwise stalled, marriage, a platonic mistress, and a bum knee. He is ...

Tibet is a land of timeless, infinite expanse. -- from the author's Introduction to Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and ...

My sister is here visiting from Germany, where she's been living and working for the past year and a half. She's a chef in Bavaria, ...

One Saturday morning in early March, when Amanda Horenstein was eleven and her brother Donald nine, their grandfather drove his Cadillac i...

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The summer I first discovered how it feels to suffer in love, I worked for a local newspaper, selling subscriptions over the phone. -- from...

Hubby and I are celebrating our 11th anniversary today, on 11/11/11.  We got married at 11:00 am, so we could even add another 11 to the li...

I was never particularly keen on my job before the day I got shot and nearly lost it, along with my life. -- Odds Against by Dick Francis...

Gold Beach on the southern Oregon coast feels more like a river town than an ocean place. The wild, tumbling Rogue River empties here, and ...

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  Robert Penn Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for All the King's Men , his fictionalized account of Louisiana's legendary g...

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...