BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit! It's December! And it looks like I'm kicking off the holidays by posting my fir...

ADVENT: COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS One of my favorite blog traditions is counting down the days to Christmas with vintage holiday cards. This ha...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! I hope you are enjoying this long holiday weekend. I love Thanks...

  Best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays! Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book ...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays! Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are r...

BOOK REVIEW Dr. Wong by Don Engebretson (2023) Billed as Volume 1 in what will be a series of Cole Ember spy thrillers, Dr. Wong is an irr...

BOOK REVIEWS A round-up of reviews of seven new-ish and noteworthy books.  Crybaby: Infertility, Illness, and other Things That Were Not the...

BOOK REVIEW Painting Through the Dark by Gemma Whelan (2022, Shangana Press ) Painting Through the Dark is the story of a young woman, Ash...

Oh, good grief! I had a work emergency come up yesterday and just now realized I never posted Book Beginnings on Fridays!  If you stop by la...

BOOK REVIEW Unsettled by Patricia Reis (2023 by Sibylline Press ) Unsettled is Patricia Reis's debut novel of historical fiction. She u...

  BOOK REVIEW Exploring Wine Regions - California Central Coast: Discovering Great Wines, Phenomenal Foods and Amazing Tourism by Michael H...

BOOK REVIEW Need Blind Ambition by Kevin Meyers (2023, Beaufort Books ) Need Blind Ambition is the second novel from Kevin Meyers, a forme...

  BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays! Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are r...

BOOK REVIEW Three Fires   by Denise Mina (2023, Pegasus Books ) With Three Fires , Denise Mina returns to the novella form she used so mast...

  BOOK REVIEW Blood From a Stone: A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead by Adam McHugh (2022, InterVarsity Press ) Blood From ...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Where is my head? I sat in front of my computer yesterday afternoon with a To Do list in front of me that include...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays! Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are rea...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS Please join me every Friday for Book Beginnings! Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, al...

  VICTOBER IS HERE! One of my favorite things about the bookstagram corner if Instagram is that it introduced me to the idea of reading Vict...