BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Happy Independence Day weekend to my Friends in the USA! I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July celebration line...

MAILBOX MONDAY Well, isn’t this divine? Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the Queens of the Golden Age of mysteries, along with Agatha Christie,...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Man! I have been off my blogging game for a while now! Do you go through blogger slumps? I just realized that m...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS I just got back from a trip to see all five grandkids and found a copy of this Muse book waiting for me. How exci...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS What are your book plans for this weekend? My weekend is filled with grandkids, so I don't think I'll get...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS I really am here on Friday with Book Beginnings. Sorry I didn't get the post up early! I was out of the offic...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Oh, I am looking forward to this long holiday weekend! How about you? What do you plan to read? I'm in one of...

A ROUNDUP OF REVIEWS I’ve gotten behind on my book reviews here on Rose City Reader. So in a bout of spring cleaning, here is a roundup of a...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS What day is it? Yikes! What a week! I got my mom and sister moved to Omaha and flew back to Portland. But got bac...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Greeting from Omaha, Nebraska, my Book Beginnings friends! I'm on the road this week, helping my mom and sist...

BOOK REVIEW Family Business: A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery by S. J. Rozan (2021, Pegasus Books ) Family Business is the latest mystery n...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS It's time again for Book Beginnings on Fridays, where participants share the opening sentence (or so) of the ...

BOOK REVIEW Champagne Widows by Rebecca Rosenberg (2022, Lion Heart Publishing)  If you enjoy fact-based historical fiction with strong wom...

 AUTHOR INTERVIEW Amy Nordhues, author of Preyed Upon: Breaking Free from Therapist Abuse   (2021) Amy Nordhues was groomed and abused as a...

  BOOK REVIEW A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris (2021, Pegasus Books) When Rebecca Buckfast takes over as head of St. Oswald’s school, you wan...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Sorry for the late post this week. No excuse. I just walked out of the office yesterday and forgot! Spring fever ...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS How is your week going? If you celebrated Easter, I hope you had a good one. I hosted at my house with my family ...