John Rebus is the kind of curmudgeon cop I love for the hero of a detective series. He’s a loner, he drinks too much, eats bad food, is o...

It was amazing how much of a difference seeing Lawrence made, and not simply in the ways she would have expected. . . . She founded a won...

What books came into your house last week? I got three new books, one that is out already and two that will launch in the next weeks: Bi...

I've enjoyed playing around with Instagram book posts lately. Instagram inspires me to take more pictures, obviously, and the bookstag...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING What is the sharing economy? ...

I didn't like to tell strangers who learned about my cancer that I was a non-smoker. Dealing with strangers was always tricky. – Wi...

I'm often inspired to buy a book or borrow it from the library because I see it on social media. But I realize that my real life fri...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING When the doorbell rang, neithe...

I got two very different books last week: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who Y...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING The wind from Hurricane Sandy...

Julia Spencer-Fleming published In the Bleak Midwinter , the first book in her Clare Fergusson series, in 2002. Fergusson is a former ar...

Crystal was hovering around thirty-nine years old and it took a lot of work to stay in this holding pattern. She was a construction, made ...

Happy Labor Day! At least for those celebrating this long holiday weekend. Indie authors and publishers work mighty hard to get their b...

Trove: A Woman's Search for Truth and Buried Treasure by Sandra A. Miller , from Brown Paper Press As a child, Sandra A. Miller g...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING "That doesn't sound ...

I tried to imagine my way back to early 1936 and to my mother's mind set when she discovered that she was pregnant. She was twenty-fo...

I got one new book last week from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program. Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Du...

Peter Nathaniel Malae 's new novel, Son of Amity , is the story of three lives converging in small town Oregon, and the little boy wh...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING I call it my shrug, but it is...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING Even though, growing up, I di...