Authors tend to be readers, so it is natural for them to create characters who like to read.  It is always interesting to me to read what b...

Aimée Leduc's cell phone rang, startling her, as she drove under the leafy poplars tenting the road to Paris. -- Murder in Belleville...

Wildness is as much a perception as reality. -- Wild in the City: Exploring the Intertwine: The Portland-Vancouver Region's Network of...

The Stories of John Cheever , which won the National Book Critics Circle award in 1978 and the Pulitzer in 1979, is a chronological co...

First awarded in 1976, the National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to ...

Most of us are type designers from birth.  We begin scribbling as toddlers, the most freedom we will ever have. -- Just My Type: A Book Ab...

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Christians are called upon to be "contenders" for their faith. -- from the author's Preface to What's So Great About Chr...

People of the Book is the kind of literary novel with historical mystery overtones that I love to get swept away in.  And Geraldine Broo...

On 12 June, 2005, a fifty-year-old man stood up in front of a crowd of students at Stanford University and spoke of his campus days as a ...

Invasion had come to the town of Adano. -- A Bell for Adano by John Hersey. Hersey's Pulitzer-winning novel is the story of an Am...

No matter how many logs I fed the woodstove, it was always well below freezing in the cabin the next morning. . . .  It got so bad I had t...

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The Pothunters is P. G. Wodehouse 's first book, originally published in 1902. It's a schoolboy story set in an English boarding...

It is very exciting to me that Dana at Let's Book It is featuring Rose City Reader as her Blog of the Week . And, no, we aren't r...

My pack, heavy with rocks, dug into my back as I hiked across the uneven ground twenty miles (32 kilometers) from the Arctic Circle. -- Mi...

The full title of Mark Twain's first published book gives, in quaint – and, one expects, tongue-in-cheek – 19th Century style, a syno...

Gwenda was eight years old, but she was not afraid of the dark. -- World Without End by Ken Follett. This is the sequel to the fabulous ...

The Mexican got up from the couch, calmly, and took a step toward Walker, sending a ripple of tension across the room.  The rest of the bi...

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Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999) was an Irish-born author best known for her complex but entertaining philosophical novels.  Dame Iris, as she...

It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage. --...

Alvaro de Padilla was overcome by dread as his visions dissipated and focus returned to his tired eyes. -- The Devil's Elixir by Ray...

  I might as well say, right from the jump: it wasn't my usual kind of job. -- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, about the myst...

The Republic of Venice existed from the late 7th century until 1797 and was formally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice, or La Se...

Alfred Edelman, with your eyes I see anew my own native place. A side-swept entrance opens into a tunnel leading towards light, towa...

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