THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The Costa Book Awards  "celebrates the most enjoyable books of the year by writers resident in the UK...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS I think of Halloween as the gateway to the holidays, how about you? As soon as the jack-o-lanterns are gone, I...

THE BOOKER PRIZE The Booker Prize is awarded each year for a full-length novel, written English and published in the UK. The Booker was tra...

OCTOBER WRAP UP Better late than never! Here’s my October wrap up. October is a particularly fun reading month ever since I discovered Victo...

 AUTHOR INTERVIEW: LAURA THOMPSON Laura Thompson studied acting and dance before turning to nonfiction writing as a career. She has written...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Funerals are Fatal would have been a good book to read last week for Halloween. I'm a bit late. Not it...

BOOK REVIEW & BOOK LIST Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford; The Biography by Laura Thompson (2019, Pegasus Books ) In Life in a Co...

  HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Have a fun and safe Halloween! It is a beautiful day here in Portland. My neighborhood is geared up and ready to celebrat...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Boo! It is almost Halloween! Are you ready for the trick-or-treaters? Are you reading anything particular for t...

BOOK REVIEW The Dead Bell by Reid Winslow (2021, Quid Mirum Press) The Dead Bell drew me completely in from the get go. It has all the mak...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS It's raining and raining all week here in Portland! This sunny cookbook of Greek recipes is exactly what I ne...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS I'm continuing my celebration of Victober with another Victorian novel, The Mill on the Floss by George El...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Happy Victober!  One of my favorite things about Instagram is Victober, the annual bookstagrammer tradition of ...

SEPTEMBER WRAP UP I finally launched my own Zazzle store. Crazy, right? It’s not like my law practice gives me a lot of down time! But I nee...