Happy Memorial Day!  These Monday holidays always feel strange, to not have to get up to the alarm and run around first thing on a Monday...

Image(s): FreeDigitalPhotos.net I have just announced my first-ever hosted challenge, Big Book Summer Challenge , so I guess I should...

Image(s): FreeDigitalPhotos.net Last year, I came up with the idea to use the relaxed freedom of summer to tackle some of the biggest b...

Jennifer Haigh has become one of my favorite authors.   Years ago, my neighbor lent me Baker Towers , and, although it didn’t sound lik...

Our crazy, hectic season continues!  Last week was a rough one for me - my husband was away on business, my mom came to visit, my son fin...

Just another Manic Monday... Life continues to be insanely busy, as we hurtle toward the end of the school year and graduation.  Last w...

I had heard great things about the psychological thriller Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson, so I was excited when one of my book gro...

I just read about Little Libraries in the AARP magazine (yes, I now read AARP - it's actually pretty good!).  This is a very cool projec...

Life is still insanely busy and rushing past at breakneck speed, but I did manage to do some catching up on my book blogs last week! De...

At Home with Books hosts Saturday Snapshot .  Happy Cinco de Mayo!  This is a photo of my 17-year old son and his date, ready to go to hi...

Are you freakin' kidding me?  May already?  That's just not possible.  From now until June, things will be insanely busy with end...

Recently, my neighborhood book group read a novel that has been on my want-to-read list for a long time: The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tor...

I heard discussions of Julian Barnes’ slim novel, The Sense of an Ending , on two of my favorite book podcasts, Books on the Nightstand ...

Monday already?  The weekend went by in a flash - very busy!  In fact, I've had almost no time for writing reviews the past few weeks...

Busy week!  And it's only going to get busier over the next 2 months...my oldest son is graduating from high school, my youngest ...

My husband and I have enjoyed many of Bill Bryson’s books, especially A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail ,...

We are back home from spring break, after visiting my father-in-law in Oklahoma last week.  It was a good visit but a loooong drive home ...

Last year, I read Love Walked In by Marisa De los Santos and enjoyed the novel, so I was eager to read her latest book, Falling Togethe...

Happy spring break!  I hope everyone had a nice Easter.  We were camping Easter morning (but the bunny found us!) and arrived in time for...

Wow, March seemed to go by in a flash!  And, oddly enough, it came in like a lamb, with 80 degree weather, and went out like a lion this w...