Every spring, my mom and I attend Booktopia, a weekend book event held at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT, where readers and about ei...

This spring, I read Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau by Ben Shattuck, a beautifully-written memoir about the author takin...

I usually try to write my reviews in the order I read the books, so according to that rule, I should be writing about another (very good) bo...

Booktopia 2022 is quickly approaching (click Events for more info; my recap of Booktopia 2019 ), and I am continuing to read the new relea...

For Nonfiction November, even my audiobooks were nonfiction! I listened to The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, a historical and lite...

One of the selections for Booktopia 2020 (now a series of virtual author events --you can join in, too!) was Greek to Me by Mary Norris, ...

In 1990, one of my closest childhood friends gave me the modern classic Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, with a lovely inscrip...

Ever since the 2008 release of her best-selling collection of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake , I've been wanting to read some ...