I would like to thank two wonderful fellow book bloggers for honoring my blog with two awards recently. I'm a bit behind in acknowledgi...

I had a good reading week, filled with lots of audio books because we took a couple of short trips in the car: The book I'm currently re...

I just finished Firefly Lane , a novel by Kristin Hannah, and I couldn’t wait to write about it. This was one of those books that I carried...

I had a great reading week... I read Everlost by Neal Shusterman, a wonderful teen/YA book about kids who are killed in a car crash and end...

There’s nothing better for a 3-week long road trip than a book about a road trip! So, on our recent vacation out to Colorado, I brought alo...

Wow, is it really July 13 already? Where's the summer going? We have piles of books taking over our house, so this morning my sons and...

Thanks to Kim at Page After Page for this very cool idea (that she heard through Weekly Geeks) ! The map below shows places I've visite...

I didn't fall off face of the earth or give up on blogging - I've just been on a 3-week cross-country road trip. We had a wonderful...

We're on vacation on a road trip and enjoying lots of good books along the way! I stopped off in a Panera with internet access to post ...

Ten pages into reading Jane Hamilton’s novel, A Map of the World , for my book group, I realized I had read it before. That was probably ...

TEN FOR TUESDAY! It's Tuesday and time for another Top Ten list. We spent Sunday evening at Barnes & Noble armed with long-held gif...

Well, it's actually still Sunday night, but I'll be out of town tomorrow, so I thought I'd post early. Nothing new this week - ...

Like most people, I am completely fascinated by the Witness Protection Program. Who wouldn’t be? Families whisked away in the middle of th...

Can it really be June already? Wow. My kids finish school this week and next. Then, we have no more early mornings or rushed evenings...b...

My book group met last week to discuss The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin and just about everyone exp...

I’m a day late today because of the holiday weekend. Last week was a great reading week: I finished The Nine: Inside the Secret World of th...

TEN FOR TUESDAY! This week's Top 10 list is a little unusual. Instead of listing some of the top ten books I've read, today I'm...

Last week, I finished: Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies) , an excellent teen novel by Justina Chen Headley (see my review at Grea...

Alyse Myers’ memoir, Who Do You Think You Are? , is in part a coming-of-age tale, but its main focus is on Myers’ relationship with her moth...

TEN FOR TUESDAY! Today I'm starting a new feature on my book blog, Ten for Tuesday. On select Tuesdays, I'll feature my own persona...