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...

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons is not the chick lit fluff to be expected from t...

She was there, in part, because she’d not sung in public for the past ten years. Even at her own father’s funeral. -- Warming Up by Ma...

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Now that I will be without them for the next four months, I cling to my cookbooks. The big kitchen remodel starts Monday, and the books are ...

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A. J. Liebling is best remembered for the long piece journalism he wrote for The New Yorker from 1935 until his death in 1963. A native M...

Audrey spread across the chaise lounge like a studious centerfold, one hand pillowing her head, the other holding a book. Her long, pret...

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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 dorky picture is perfect for my Valentine's Day because my husband is out of town and I am spending the evening with my sister....

The Tuesday Club Murders is a collection of 13 short stories by Agatha Christie and was the second published volume in her Miss Marples...

Describing the hero Farnie's first day at a new boarding school: Finally, on retiring to bed and being pressed by the rest of his ...

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I celebrate my birthday. I prefer to stretch the celebration out for as many days as possible, take time off work, maybe go on a trip...

I put off reading Wally Lamb’s hefty novel She’s Come Undone , because I knew it is about a young girl who became fat, and I could not i...

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...

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...

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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...