SORRY FOR THE DELAY! I SCHEDULED THIS TO POST WHILE I WAS TRAVELING FOR WORK. BUT MY OPERATOR ERROR -- I HAD THE WRONG DATE AND IT WA...

When she was 18, Yvonne Wakefield took the inheritance intended to pay for her college, bought 80 acres in the Oregon mountains, and bu...

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What books came into your house last week? I indulged my completist urge and bought the three Kate Fansler mysteries I didn't have, so...

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M. Louis is the author of a new mystery series featuring Portland private eye Jake Brand. The series started with a Twitter exercise ...

I didn't want to tell anyone that I knew that we would be building this house for a family in another country. It felt very White G...

What books came into your house last week? I got a couple of interesting books: On the Ragged Edge of Medicine: Doctoring Among the Disp...

The Vintage Mystery Challenge , hosted by Bev at My Reader's Block , is always one of my favorites. I've gone back and forth betw...

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COMPLETED This is my warp up post for the 2016 European Reading Challenge, which officially ends January 31, 2017. To post your wrap...

Barriers between people and nature seem to be of five basic kinds: distance, physical disability, poverty, lack of time, and attitude. Le...

What books came into your house last week? One non-fiction book caught my eye. The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Va...

DID NOT COMPLETE Inspirational blogger and book fan  Hannah Braime encourages people to read by hosting a 26-book and 52-book readi...

I read 108 books in 2016, which surprised me because I was crazy busy at work last year, including moving our office, which added turmoil...

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In the desert, the sun swaggers like a bully. Even in April the southern Nevada sky is barely big enough to hold all the light. -- Wher...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (o...

The tribal lands, also known to the Americans there as the Badlands, or Indian Territory, were basically lawless. Also known as dangerous...

Did you get any good books for Christmas? Santa brought me three books that look very entertaining: A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the...