I'm squeezing in one last review of 2010 in between New Year's Eve appetizer courses. I had the luxury of reading for several uninte...

I had absolutely nothing new to read and the library was closed for Christmas, so I borrowed this book by Lin Stepp from my parents' li...

So my sister-in-law has been telling me for years that I need to read Janet Evanovich. Then several of my friends confessed that Evanovich i...

It's 1959 in rural Maine. Reverend Tyler Caskey can't shake the shroud of grief that envelops him after his young wife's death, ...

I didn't know what I was getting into when I began reading Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge . That's kind of what I do: I put...

I sure do love the book blogging community. Probably 80% of the books I read are ones that I've found via another blogger's review. ...

"If a war lasts long enough, is it possible that people would completely forget the idea of beauty? That they'd only be able to do ...

In the creative writing class that I teach for middle schoolers, we have been discussing what makes a good character. The kids have all kind...

"It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you...

I've had Arctic Homestead on my TBR list for years and finally got it through Paperback Swap several months ago. This is Norma Cobb...

"I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where ...

I missed this book by Laura Esquivel when it was all the rage some 15 years ago or so. The subtitle nearly says it all: " A Novel in Mo...

I've had Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz on my TBR list for a couple of years now, since my friend's daughter had to read it in...

I am a big, big fan of Sharyn McCrumb's ballad novels, which take place in the hills in Upper East TN and southwest Virginia. She Walks ...

I was eagerly looking forward to Sandra Dallas's newest release, Whiter Than Snow . Like Prayers for Sale , Whiter Than Snow takes plac...

Never Let Me Go is my introduction to Kazuo Ishiguro, and I have to say it was a fantastic introduction. I had no expectations and really h...

Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first ... in one direction, and then another, and which was the stronger no one could say. ...

This book by Anne Fadiman has been on my TBR list for a couple of years, so when I saw it on my son's required reading list for college...

This is the book everyone's talking about, like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was in 2009. (Isn't The Help so...

September 15th: This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden; of tea und...