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...

This is the charming (and true!) account of the correspondence between an American woman and the staff of a British bookshop, which I heard ...

I read Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner , in February 2005. (Pretty sharp memory for a literary amnesiac, eh? Well, it helps when...

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give bi...

Between the siren song of my garden during this beautiful spring weather, and unexpectedly finding the wind knocked out of me more than once...