I was still sick most of last week, so I continued on my Pendragon kick from last week: I finished Pendragon Book 7: the Quillan Games by ...

Best laid plans... I ended up reading very different books last week than I'd planned on. You know how different kinds of books can fit...

Nobody will ever confuse Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels with great literature, but if you’re looking for pure escapist fun in a boo...

Another blogger suggested a weekly reading list, and it sounds like a good idea, so here's my first one. Last week, I finished: Plum Spo...

Orson Scott Card is one of my favorite authors. I didn’t think I liked science fiction much until I read his fabulous series that begins wi...

Most people know of The Reader as the movie for which Kate Winslet recently won a Best Actress Academy Award, but The Reader , by Bernhard ...

Christopher Moore is known for writing funny and irreverent novels about strange topics, and A Dirty Job is no exception. Charlie Asher i...

Another book blogger, J. Kaye , has recently posted a review of the book Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans . She is also giving aw...

Anytime I have happened to come across Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s writing (often in her past columns in Parenting magazine while waiting in a ...

I'm pleased to announce that I have just launched my new book review blog, especially for kids and teens: Great Books for Kids and Teen...

“The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me. That’s how it would always be from that day forward. O...

I must be the only the person on earth who was a teen in the 70's and never read Go Ask Alice , the anonymous account of a teen girl who...

Several years ago, I began keeping a book journal so that I could keep track of what I read. At this time of year, I like to look back at w...

I loved this first novel by Nasim Marie Jafry, but I suppose I should begin with a bit of disclosure. Jafry, like me, has a chronic illne...

Although The Book Thief by Markus Zusak was published as a Young Adult book, one of my grown-up book groups recently read it for our Septemb...

My new favorite website is Titlepage which features author interviews on an hour-long show, posted once a week. The show is very well done...

Just had to share this hilarious column from the Philadelphia Inquirer, written by Lisa Scottoline about her experiences on book tours. Hav...

Ashley Rhodes-Courter lived in fourteen different foster homes in nine years. Her memoir chronicles her childhood spent as a victim of a ba...

I just read the recently released young adult novel, Click, by David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Nick Hornby, Margo La...

I just finished reading my book group’s latest selection, China Run by David Ball, and my initial reaction is, “What an amazing book.” Wit...