BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS I can't believe that it will be September next week! Kids are going back to school. It is still full-on sum...

MAILBOX MONDAY I was having lunch with my private eye the other day . . . That really has nothing to do with anything, but saying it always...

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BOOK REVIEW The Reservoir by David Duchovny (2022, Akashic Books ) David Duchovny's new books, The Reservoir , is a novella about Ridle...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Do you read different books in the summer than you do in the winter? I always think I'm going to read somethi...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS These summer weeks are just drifting by! Welcome back to Book Beginnings on Fridays, where you can share the op...

MAILBOX MONDAY What books came into your house last week?  Two new books came my way. Both look like fun! I Meant to Tell You by Fran Hawth...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS It's hot this week here in Oregon. Like most Oregonians, I complain when it rains all spring and then I compl...

Erica Jong's Top 100 20th Century Novels by Women At the turn of the Millennium, there was a flurry of "Top 100" book lists. T...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS After our cold, rainy spring, summer is finally here in Portland. Of course, by next week, we will all complain i...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Do you read books in translation? Every time I read a book in translation I vow to read more. I’m a lunkish mon...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Welcome back to Book Beginnings on Fridays, where participants share the first sentence (or so) of the books we a...

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...