Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long ti...

The inside part of the kitchen remodel is almost finished.  Several details to go, like an Italian tile thing to hang behind the range, the ...

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

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Beast in View won Margaret Millar the Edgar Award for the best mystery of 1956, the third year the award was given. Set in the seedier ...

And this is exactly how a woman agrees to see a man second time after finding him neither interesting, intelligent, nor compelling: He a...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long ti...

Finally! The white tile got here. Now the final kitchen dominoes can fall.  This week is was install tile, grout tile, caulk bottom of tile,...

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...

Most books you can read, analyze, and review, but some you just have to accept. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass is a book I had to take on ...

Whenever, during the summer, he took a party of students abroad under his genial wing, catastrophic event attended him.  As he sat sippi...

The tile phase of the kitchen is finally underway.  We are still waiting on the subway tile for the kitchen backsplash, but the tile guy cam...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long ti...

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 ...

In Lavinia , Ursula Le Guin reimagines the story of how Aeneas (of Virgil's Aeneid ) fought the locals of Latinum, married the king’s ...

The earthquake that lashed the Pacific Northwest in 1700 ranks among the mightiest the Earth can yield. Scientists today call it a megaq...

Other than getting an English Beat song stuck in my head, hanging a mirror in the new powder room didn't pack much of a punch. But be...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long ti...

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 ...

I can think of dozens of reasons I buy used books, including the availability of out-of-print titles, price, and the happy feeling I...

A Prefect's Uncle is P. G. Wodehouse 's second published book. Like his first, The Pothunters , it is set in an English boarding...

The qualities which in later years rendered Frederick Wackerbath Bradshaw so conspicuous a figure in connection with the now celebrated a...