BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS It's the beginning of December and time for Book Beginnings on Fridays!  Sorry I was MIA last week! Thanksg...

 

Kay Trimberger is a sociologist, professor, and author. She lives and writes in Berkeley, California, which is where she was living when in ...

 

  December 1 means it's time for the Rose City Reader advent calendar of vintage Christmas cards! I love holiday traditions and this is ...

  Exploring Wine Regions is a new series of wine and travel guides launched by author and photographer Michael C. Higgins. He started the s...

  I forgot to post last night because my sister got a new puppy and I was distracted by the cute pictures. She's a little scrappy thing ...

  A splurge of new books! Yes, I think the collective noun for newly-purchased, yet unshelved books should be a splurge – like a murder of c...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Welcome back for another chance to share the opening sentence (or so) from the book you are reading or highlighti...

  I know it is now Nonfiction November but I don't think nonfiction is going to do it for me this month. Are you reading nonfiction in N...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS It's Halloween week but I'm not reading anything scary. Are you? I don't like scary books! What do ...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS I almost forgot to post this evening because I have lost all sense of what day of the week it is. Do you ever g...

  Journalist Lori Tobias has covered the Oregon coast for the last 20 years, writing about small towns, fishing, tourism, crimes, good time...

  Another week, another stack of books that found their way to my house. How about you? What new books came your way? A Time to Build: From ...

  The Green Years by Karen Wolff is the story of Harry Spencer, a boy growing up in South Dakota in the 1920s, who has to find his own path...