Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for her first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies .  The stores are not interconne...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is sad and beautiful. Set in the aftermath of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the short no...

We've chosen these trails as our favorites and to represent the great diversity of long distance walking. These trails are found o...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it...

The European Reading Challenge January 1, 2012 to January 31, 2013 FINISHED THIS IS THE WRAP-UP POST FOR 2012 TO FIND THE 2...

COMPLETED! Wendy at Caribousmom and Vasilly at 1330V have again teamed up to host the Chunkster Challenge, one of my favorites, ...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the s...

Despite its enormous popularity, including with the ladies in my book club, I thought that Abraham Verghese's hefty novel, Cutting for...

Only rarely do I stray from my book lists when choosing what to read. When I do, it is with mixed results. Maybe my book club will pick so...

Had that been what happened to Mr. Brown, an involuntary slip? But there had been no arm to catch him, only the red-shirted arm that f...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it...

Wendy at Caribousmom and Vasilly at 1330V teamed up to host the 2012 Chunkster Reading Challenge . FINISHED 2012 was the third y...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the s...

  Katharine Graham deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize for her autobiography, Personal History . Graham lived a fascinating life, from her c...

Why did I assume I would dislike The Prestige ? There were several reasons: It is about magicians, a class of entertainers I tolerate ...

As a result of spending all her time in college with Raj, she continued, she did not make many close friends. There was no one to confide...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it...

NOT COMPLETED! Even though I cut way back on challenges in 2013, I can't resist the Vintage Mystery Challenge that Bev hosts on M...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the s...

I am in Detroit for work and forget to post my teaser! Here it is, delayed and without links. From the book I started on the plane. She ...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it...

John Coltrane's Lush Life album was the first jazz album I ever heard. I was 19 and had a dubbed cassette tape copy that I played u...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the s...

This is my very last State of the Blog post.  I used these quarterly blog assessment posts to keep track of the progress I've made ...