I have literally had this book for ten years without cracking it open, always intending to read it and never doing so. When deciding on whic...

This book was a gift from Sam along with all the Miss Marple mysteries (which I’ve already read and blogged about). I’ve really enjoyed read...

Did I say I don’t like reading about war? Maybe that’s because I'd never read about war waged by a woman.  I'd never heard of this b...

I have had this book for so long. I mean, dang, I bought it back when you could get a new paperback for fifty cents. I don't remember ex...

Sigh. I finished reading this book a week and a half ago and have dragged my feet about it ever since then. Each day that passes solidifies ...

I may not be a poet but You’ll humor me, I hope Or get to know a better one:  Her name is Wendy Cope She wrote a little poem called  “The Or...

Walden was on a long list of books I have always intended to read, most of which appear there purely because, for whatever reason, I feel I...

After reading and loving Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow , Sam and I both were interested in reading more Zevin. Sam went with AJ Fikry ...

Well, Sam was right-- The Guest  was better than The Girls , and I was right too--I should have read The Girls  first. I think I would have ...

What's this? Another cookbook blog post?  I promise I am not trying to turn this into a cooking blog. It is, and always will be, a read...

Sam said I wouldn’t like this book. He said it was terrible and he didn't recommend it. But I decided to read it anyway. (Because it was...

For a long time I have harbored a fantasy of finding a baby in a box. (In my dreams it's a live one. Let's not talk about my nightma...