I've cooked my way through another Melissa Clark cookbook! But not  Dinner in French (yet--I took the easy way out and put that one on t...

 I had such fun reading this book! And I'm sad that it's over.  Could Hercule Poirot's Christmas be considered high literature?...

Life is too short to read books you don’t love. But the problem is… how do you know if you’ll love a book before you read it? Sam gave me a ...

I've mentioned Modern General in Santa Fe before, but it's worth mentioning again. It's a kind of cafe (though I've never ea...

I usually tend to stay away from ARCs, just as I stay away from self-published novels, for two reasons: one, I prefer to let publishing comp...

Yep, it’s official. I like Sloane Crosley’s essays more than I like her novels.   The Clasp  is the story of Victor, Kezia and Nathaniel, co...

I can’t sleep. This is not a frequent occurrence for me, but after lying in bed in the dark for a while, trying to be still and quiet and wi...

This is the book that the Internet presented to me when I searched for the non-existent Designing With Books . I expected a book full of dro...

Just got out my List of Favorite Authors and realized Lily King did not appear on it. So, she does now! Squeezed in at #6 between Rachel Cus...

Here's one of the two books I mentioned in my last post. It didn't quite turn out to be what I expected. I guess I would have known ...

After a brief foray into Sloane Crosley's novel-writing, I'm back to her essays, which is where I started (with I Was Told There...

Weekend before last, we had the opportunity to go to a cute little bookshop in Atlanta's Ponce City Market: Posman Books. I guess there ...