It's the last Monday of 2010!  Hard to believe, isn't it? I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays with their families and got lots o...

My mom read Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman on our recent Thanksgiving vacation and handed it to me as soon as she finished it!  I ...

We had a nice, quiet day at home yesterday, just the four of us.  As is typical here, LOTS of books were exchanged as gifts.  I just love ge...

I have wanted to read Still Alice by Lisa Genova for a long time because I kept hearing great reviews, and its premise sounded intriguing. ...

Somehow, when I was writing my Monday post this morning, I completely forgot about audio books!  So, in addition to what we read last week: ...

Whew, it's been a whirlwind week, with another revving up today.  I spent most of last week toiling away on our year-end photo DVD, wi...

What can I say about this 50-year old timeless masterpiece that hasn’t already been said?   I recently read To Kill a Mockingbird ...

Whew, what a busy week!  My husband was out of town again last week, so I was on my own with the kids and the house, plus a few last 2010 w...

It's that time of year again...time for all the Best Books of the Year lists!  I don't often have a chance to read brand-new hardcov...

Well, the holiday season is now in full swing!  We were relaxing on the beach a little more than a week ago, and now it’s cold and almost Ch...

My book group decided to read a classic this month (in fact, both of my book groups did!), and we chose Edith Wharton's The Age of Innoc...

I know I say something similar every month, but I am still stunned that it is somehow December already - where did the fall go? November w...

 Happy Monday - hard to believe it's almost December already! I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your fami...

In May 2009, I posted a top ten list of Authors I Can't Believe I've Never Read .  One of those was Toni Morrison.  I rectified that...

Happy Monday!  I can't believe it's mid-November already, and the holiday season starts next week - yikes!  Things will get really...

The trend continues as yet another book is adapted for the big screen.  This one is a classic:  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.  It's b...

In February 2009, I posted a review of a unique memoir, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.  I really enjoyed this fun...

Happy Monday!  Another busy week here.  Last week of the marking period for the kids, so they had a lot of work to do, my husband is trave...

Yeah!!!  One of my all-time favorite novels, The Help , is being made into a movie, to be released in August 2011.  This update provides ...

I didn't read nearly as many books in October as I did in September, but that's a good thing - I tore through a bunch of book last m...