BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS  I just wrapped up a long day of depositions. I need to get out of my desk chair and move around! So let's ge...

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: CELIA JEFFRIES In her new novel, Blue Desert , author Celia Jeffries weaves an exciting tale of a young British woman livi...

  MAILBOX MONDAY In a moment of social media serendipity, as I gathered these books on my desk to start my Mailbox Monday post, a friend tag...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS I had such a fantastic week! My mom and sis and I spent four days at the Oregon coast on our first post-vaccine r...

 BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Where did this week go? I wanted to get a couple of other posts up between last week's Book Beginnings post ...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS After a whirlwind couple of weeks at work, I can finally catch my breath! Thank heavens! Which means I remember...

APRIL WRAP UP April showers brought these May flowers! And a basket of books I read in April. I continued to make progress on my TBR 21 in ...

  MAILBOX MONDAY It's been a while since I've done a Mailbox Monday post. Not that books haven't been trickling steadily into my...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Welcome to Book Beginnings on Fridays, where books lovers gather to share the opening sentence (or so) of the b...

  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 ...