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...

Spring has finally come to Portland, after weeks of freaky cold and snow.  So it is time to take a look at the books I've read this yea...

Spring has finally come to Portland, with our first really warm and sunny day after weeks of freaky cold and snow.  Now, if only I could be ...

I am very pleased to announce that I am taking over hosting duties for Book Beginnings on Fridays! Thanks go to Becky at Page Turners for ...

Spring may have sprung on the calendar, but it snuck up on me since it is still very cold, rainy, and even a little snowy here in Portland. ...

John Hersey won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano , the story of an American Army officer in Sicily during World War II.  The ...

Wow! Four years ago today I started this blog on a whim.  I didn't expect that it would be so much fun or that I would keep at it for t...

Today it is not uncommon to look up and see the sickle-shaped silhouette of a peregrine falcon slicing through the clouds above our cit...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...