I love Tanita and love her writing.  This is her latest; my copy just arrived. I'm so excited!  For a rundown of Tanita's upcoming...

  “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”  — Blaise Pascal * A year ago on Valentine's...

Sharing a rough draft this week. (Pardon us while we're under construction.) :)  The Poetry Friday round-up is being hosted this ...

I was at Half Price Books with my librarian daughter the other day and we were trying to keep each other from buying too many books...

June is doing its usual thing, and by "usual thing" I mean, "careening past me at an insane speed that should get it stop...

I picked up  Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process   last night and skipped straight to the Billy...

About eight years ago (Seven? Nine? Something like that -- whenever she was at that junior high-ish age), Betsy started reading Ally Carter ...

Let me start by saying it wasn't nearly as much as I'd planned to read. Gosh, somehow, after Friday morning, July 28th (when A...

Are you a marginalia type? Or a notes-in-a-separate-notebook reader? Do you use post-its? Do you dog-ear? What do you think of  book darts ?...

"Reason, beauty, poetry, and excellent conversation were his preferred tools for settling disputes."  -- The Girl Who Drank...

Late last month, Betsy, Ramona and I went to see the filmed version of the Broadway show Newsies . They're big fans of the movie (w...

... Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church."  ~ A T...

I haven't read much this weekend. I was walloped with Atticus's cold on Friday night, and I've spent the weekend mostly crav...

I like ice in my coffee in July, not on my road in January. But on the road is where the ice is today. School and work were canceled for...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry , Rachel Joyce A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman Betsy was a Junior , Maud Hart Lovelace  The P...

Ramona and I just finished  The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate , Jacqueline Kelly's delightful* sequel to The Evolution of Calpurni...

So, I recently posted on Facebook that I had book hangover and couldn't decide what to read next. After finishing Far From the Madding ...

I honestly didn't know what I was getting myself into when I picked up  The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman . It was far mo...

I dropped this beautiful book and marred the cover with a pronounced crease.  Somehow, though, that seems more than okay.  I finished...

So, I recently finished A Canticle for Leibowitz . I can't believe it took me this long to read it (30-some years? When did you fir...