"There's nothing like a wake for having a good time."  That one sentence, for me, sums up the tone of Frank McCourt's enti...

"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside...

Remember when I told you I'd bought this book ? Not surprisingly for a story that stirs together Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper, it...

Here's a book that would make a great movie. That's not necessarily an insult, but it's not breathless approval, either. It mean...

Each of my kids recently lucked into a tidy sum of money. Five whole dollars! I offered them a trip to Books-A-Million, and promised I would...

Curses! I read this book weeks ago and I'm just now blogging about it. That's never good. I remember that I enjoyed reading it, but ...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille begins life as an unwanted baby boy in 18th century Paris. As he grows, he doesn't develop a conscience or an ...

The kids and I read The Giver as a bedtime story over the past few weeks. My oldest child couldn't stand the slow pace and read ahead, ...

As lovely as it is to have a bookworm for a child, it can be a bit frustrating when said child is both a voracious and a very picky reader....

I'm going to have to be more careful about what I put on my wish list. This book screams I WANT TO BE TWILIGHT !! (I can already pictu...

I first heard about this book from Lesa , who has seen the "creepy suspense film" adaptation from 1945, but hasn't read the bo...

Hearts and Minds  is a campus novel set in a fictional all-female college at Cambridge University. Rosy Thornton has written a story centere...