It’s official! The Dumas Law Group will open its doors for business on March 31, 2014.  (April 1 would have been more logical, but I didn...

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If this wasn't a crazy busy week for me, I would ponder what's it's been like to have a book blog for six whole years and sha...

. . . [I]slands form in all kinds of ways, sometimes because of high water or at a confluence where the force of one river meets anothe...

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If he thought about it – and he rarely had – he would have allowed the possibility of something Almighty-ish: some sort of vague and un...

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathl...

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I reach into my pants pocket and pull out the note from Sitka's mom. Jenny. My drugged out, ex-con, now-I'm-ready-to-come-hom...

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COMPLETED! Margot from Joyfully Retired started the Foodies Read Challenge a couple of years ago, before passing the torch to Vicki f...

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FIVE FAVE VENICE BOOKS It is Carnival in Venice this week, so here is a short list of my favorite Venice books: The World of Venic...

That space, that divide that came between us so many years ago, still weighed on Molly, and I felt she always blamed Patty over it, thou...

The Difficult Sister is not the cozy you might suspect, given that it involves two fifty-something women on a road trip to the Oregon C...

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Maeve Binchy’s novels appeal to some deep need for tidiness. The stories are all different, but they have the same structure: a lot of ...

But the rock woman was dead, drowned in shallow water.  The hairs on my arms and neck prickled. -- The Difficult Sister by Judy Ne...

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  The 2014 European Reading Challeng e is underway with gusto.  Dozens of adventurous readers have signed up to take the Grand Tour ...