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...

Do you read audio books? Do you enjoy particular types of book in audio editions? Where do you get your audio books? I've liste...

Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them)   by Marcia Riefer Johnston   Trying t...

Love addicts are people who need to be "in love" constantly. They attach to people through euphoria, romance, or sex in ...

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The counters are in! The soapstone is beautiful, although it is still in its pre-waxed state, so it is a pale greenish grey.  Once it g...

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...

If and when I filed a case, I wanted to use my real name.… I knew it wasn't a normal practice. Victims like me typically use an ali...

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All the cupboards are in, upper and lower, and work has begun on the trim and mouldings.  It is finally starting to look like a kitchen agai...

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...

2013 European Reading Challenge January 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014 THIS IS THE PAGE FOR WRAP UP POSTS. TO LIST YOUR REVIEWS...

  Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution by Thomas M...

  House lust tended to make me blind to the faults of old buildings and Steve usually provided a much-needed reality check. My goal in t...

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Progress inside the new kitchen was slow this week.  There was some more cabinet work, not much.  But enough to see what the upper cupboa...

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...

  Hugh Laurie is best known as an actor – the volatile but brilliant Dr. House or Bertie Wooster to Stephen Fry's Jeeves – but he oc...

Police Chief Sam Lowell scratched the gray whiskers on the blade of his jaw. The whisk of sound, like insects in dry grass, made Kate gl...

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 cupboards are here. They are not installed yet, just crammed into the kitchen space all higgledy-piggledy. But they are here so we ca...

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 noticed she made no mention of where Luke, the handyman she hired in early March, slept.… If Priscilla found comfort with the bowle...