MAILBOX MONDAY I've been Mailbox Monday MIA for a few weeks while getting ready for a trial. In the meantime, several new books have c...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Welcome to Book Beginnings on Fridays! Please share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this...

  BOOK BEGGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS How often do you post on your blog each week? Ideally, I like to post three or four times a week. I had a shor...

  JUNE WRAP UP My June reading was a real mishmash! I read book from the lists I'm working on, challenges for 2021, things that caught m...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Happily, the once-in-a-millennium "heat dome" over Portland cracked Monday and temperatures dropped a...

AUTHOR INTERVIE W: EMMANUEL DONGALA Author of The Bridgetower Sonata: Sonata Mulattica (2021, Schaffner Press ) Emmanuel Dongala is a Cong...

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  BOOK REVIEW The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin by Sian Lye (2020, Pen & Sword Books ) Hergé is the pen name of the famous...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS We are heading into a scorcher of a weekend here in Portland. Like all Oregonians (or all Willamette Valley dwell...

  BOOK REVIEW Blue Desert by Celia Jeffries (2021, Rootstock Publishing ) Sixty years after Alice George lived in the Sahara desert with t...

BOOK REVIEW The Garden in Every Sense and Season: A Year of Insights and Inspiration from My Garden by Tovah Martin (2021 Timber Press ed...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS BOOK CLUBS AND PANDEMICS Are you in a book club? Did you meet during corona time? I'm in two book clubs, and ...

BOOK REVIEW Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us by Lawrence Weinstein (2020) Grammar books ra...

  MAILBOX MONDAY They Called Him Marvin is the intimate history of one family caught up the War in the Pacific during WWII. First Lieutenan...

MAY WRAP UP Oh, the merry month of May! Apparently I spent most of it with my nose in a book. How about you? During May, I made progress on...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Welcome back to Book Beginnings on Fridays! Please share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are featuring...

AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH NICKI CHEN Nicki Chen is a novelist and blogger from Washington state. Tales of her husband's childhood in China i...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS This is my first Book Beginnings post from my office instead of my house since before corona. My office opened th...