BOOK REVIEW: WINDHALL BY AVA BARRY Ava Barry’s new novel Winhall brings the Golden Age of Hollywood back to life through a film noir lens...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Welcome to another week of Book Beginnings on Fridays!  I got my second COVID vaccine yesterday and it's go...

  AUTHOR INTERVIEW: GAIL HOVEY When Gail Hovey was a teenager, she was emotionally and physically seduced by Georgia, the education director...

RARE BOOK CAFE - PODCAST APPEARANCE I was a guest this morning on the Rare Book Cafe, a video podcast hosted by Portland rare books dealer E...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS It is a gorgeous spring week here in Portland, but a crazy busy one for me, work-wise. I'm off to my first ...

  REVIEW: THE ANGLOPHILE'S NOTEBOOK   by Sunday Tayor (2020, Spuyten Duyvil ) Towards the end of my freshman year of college, I went th...

MONTHLY WRAP UP MARCH March was a good reading month for me. I didn't have a clunker in the bunch. I continued to climb Mt. TBR, as seve...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS So many new books come out this time of year that I have another twofer this week for Book Beginnings on Friday...

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: ARLANA CRANE Author Arlana Crane lives in Calgary, Canada but her earlier years on Vancouver Island in British Columbia i...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Thank you for joining me once again for Book Beginnings on Fridays! I have two books this week just for a chang...

  Dorothy L. Sayers  (1893 – 1957) was one of the four Queens of Crime of the Golden Age of detective fiction, along with Agatha Christie, M...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS My 13th Blogiversary was this week! I celebrated with a "13 Things About My & My Blog" post last ...

FEBRUARY WRAP UP Um, March is speeding along, almost over, and I just realized I forgot to post my February wrap up post! This is why I skip...

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: SOLACE WALES Solace Wales is a San Francisco Bay Area art educator. She and her artist husband have lived part time in th...