BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Laura Stanfill's new novel, Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary , launches on April 19 and I am so excit...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Do you reread books?  I didn't used to. But in the last year or so I've been revisiting some favorite boo...

THE BBC'S BIG READ Starting in April 2003, BBC began a search for Britain’s best-loved novel. Viewers voted for their favorite book and...

  MAILBOX MONDAY Work obligations and family life have kept me hopping the last few months and I haven't visited Mailbox Monday as often...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS I'm about halfway through the zoom trial on the Boy Scouts bankruptcy. I'm pretty frazzled. But at leas...

ALL-TIME BEST 100 ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NOVELS In 2005, TIME Magazine critics Richard Lacayo and Lev Grossman picked the 100 best English-langua...

IT'S MY BLOGIVERSARY! Rose City Reader has been around for 14 years now, since 2008. The popularity of book blogging seems to have waxed...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS I'm tied up in the Boy Scouts' bankruptcy confirmation trial (by zoom). I forgot all about Book Beginni...

PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction honors the "best published works of fiction by American permanent re...

The National Book Critics Circle presents annual awards for books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, ...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS It has been an exciting week around here! I was in Omaha with my sister last week, house hunting. After five da...

 BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Greeting from Omaha! My sis and I are in Omaha, Nebraska this week, our hometown. So I am doing my Book Beginnin...