Recently, the Wall Street Journal's Dear Book Lover column (unfortunately, its last column) was about The Best Book Podcasts . It was a...

Ahh....what's that sound?  Silence!  We took our oldest son to college on Saturday and helped him move into the dorms, and our younge...

At least I think it's still Monday...barely!  We spent the weekend out of town with family, then all day today driving back and forth...

Well, I did some catching up on blogs last week and wrote quite a few posts and reviews, but this Monday post might be all that I can ...

Once again, the end of the month took me by surprise!  How could July have passed so quickly?  I usually start my monthly summary with a p...

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a wonderful, unique novel that is so good that it swept quickly through our family, read by me, the...

Today is Tuesday, and that means Top Ten Day over at The Broke and the Bookish .  Head on over there to check out all the links to gre...

Wow, it just occurred to me that it is now August, and we left July behind last week.  That should give you a hint as to what my week was...

Recently, my favorite book podcast, Books on the Nightstand , referenced this blog post from Mental Floss, 11 Authors Who Hated the Movie Ve...

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...