My bedtime treat continues. Last night I reached the end of Real Tigers , so tonight I get to start Spook Street. Real Tigers is the one wh...

It seems almost unbelievable to me that I had not read a book by Elizabeth Strout before now. (Oh, to you, too?) Strout is quite a celebrate...

I credit this book with getting me out of my reading slump. I also partially blame it for getting me into my reading slump in the first plac...

I have just begun to poke my head up out of a reading slump, the likes of which I had never seen before.  I never entirely quit reading, but...

Sam gave me this book for my birthday last year. AI suggested it to him as a substitute for Ann Patchett, whose next book doesn’t come out u...

The Silent Hen is a book written by my first cousin once removed and released by hybrid publisher Atmosphere Press. Helen's parents (my ...

Initially, Sam wasn't thrilled about the idea of watching  A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms  on TV (he'd read a review that described ...

Just finished another Bathroom Book, which Sam bought for me nearly 3 years ago when I was experiencing a life slump where I felt like I was...

I really enjoyed dreaming my way through these two gardening books. Sam gave them to me for my birthday, after I had mentioned that I would ...

It is currently colder than it has any right to be in this part of the world, and I want nothing more than to put my feet somewhere warm (id...

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?...