Sage lay with his cheek against the rough planks, his mind rebelling against the grim reality of his situation. The fading ribbons of lig...

Let there be light! The new windows are in the kitchen. We can already tell it will be a lot brighter than the old, dark kitchen with i...

Julian Barnes explores memory, loss, and lives built around the empty spaces in his Booker-winning novel, The Sense of an Ending . Ostens...

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But Rayner was also three inches taller than me, four stones heavier, and at least eight however-you-measure-violence units more violent...

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Nothing is left of our old kitchen except some 100-year-old lath and the cast-iron radiator waiting to be disconnected.  Demolition r...

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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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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...

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