Well, my week of quiet solitude is over!  On Saturday, we picked up our two teen sons from their week of sailing with their grandparent...

Photo by Sunny Chanel at Strollerderby It turns out you CAN judge a book by its cover! In this blog post from Strollerderby , the auth...

Today is my birthday!  Happy Birthday to me - ha ha.  I am celebrating by relaxing alone at home - ahhhh!  My sons are off on their grand...

Summer is usually my no-book-group time, when I have no reading obligations because both of my regular book groups take the summer off, ...

Whew, another crazy busy week.  I literally had appointments every single day last week - run, run, run!  Fortunately, all that time in w...

For years – and years! – I have been hearing good things about Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and its sequels. I bought myself a copy a very ...

Me and my two sons in Badlands National Park We spent most of June on a 3-week long cross-country road trip (and the week before tha...

I'm a little late posting today - spent all morning running errands and going to appointments.  Whatever happened to the lazy days of...

At Home with Books hosts Saturday Snapshot . This is a photo from our recent cross-country road trip, of a storm approaching at sunset...

No, don't worry, I didn't enter Witness Protection.  I disappeared for a few weeks because we were on vacation!  Our vacations ar...

Whew - May went by in a flash!  A Very busy month for us, getting ready for two graduations, proms and formals, lots of school activities, a...

When The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern was first published, I heard one gushing, complimentary review after another, but it sounded ...

Wow, last week was just a nonstop whirlwind of activity, but I survived!  Our oldest son, Jamie, graduated with honors from high school t...

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...