When the strings start popping and the package we have wrapped in our denial and delusions starts to come undone and chaos begins to sprea...

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...

  High Stakes is a particularly good Dick Francis book, which says a lot, since they are all first-rate. It follows the tried and true ...

  INCOMPLETE This is my first year to sign up for the popular What's in a Name Challenge , now hosted by Beth Fish Reads . Click t...

Four times a year, I do a review of the books I've read so far.  In January, that review covers all the books I read the last calendar y...

It's July 9, about half-way through the process of writing this book and nearly a year since Margetty and I went to the Big Hole and r...

Four times a year, I review the books I've read to that point and see what kind of progress I've made on my books lists and reading ...

  FINISHED Stu at Winstonsdad's Blog hosted a challenge-type event called Henry Green Week from January 23 to 29, 2012.  Click o...

Just then Kazuko came back carrying the ingredients for tea on a flat wooden tray.  She pushed the tray into the room as a woman in a resta...

The Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge is hosted by My Reader's Block. The goal is to read mysteries written before 1960. I signed ...

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...

This is the list of the 116 books I read in 2011, in the order that I read them. Looking back, I am pleased to see that I read a mix I am ...

FINISHED Melissa at The Betty and Boo Chronicles is hosting the 2012 Memorable Memoirs Reading Challenge . I am signing up at the Aut...