Today's topic at Armchair BEA is nonfiction. Ten years ago, I probably would have just said that I rarely read nonfiction (because I d...

Today's topic for Armchair BEA is genre fiction. My book tastes and reading habits have changed dramatically in this regard over the p...

The Book Expo of America (BEA) kicks off today in NYC. It is the ultimate conference for book lovers. Even more enticing, they now offer a...

Happy Memorial Day to those of you in the U.S.! My grandfather was a proud Marine who served in World War II and was at Iwo Jima, so he i...

Image(s): FreeDigitalPhotos.net I have just announced the second year of my challenge, Big Book Summer Challenge , so I guess I should ...

Image(s): FreeDigitalPhotos.net A few years ago, I came up with the idea to use the relaxed freedom of summer to tackle some of the ...

The 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was recently awarded to The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson. Normally, I wouldn’t run right out ...

Ahhh...the quiet solitude of a Monday morning after a busy weekend. But this is the end of the peace and tranquility for me for a while! ...

At Home with Books hosts Saturday Snapshot. Crazy, stressful week this week (with pockets of joy!), so I didn't take any new photos. ...

I was browsing the nonfiction shelves in the library when I came across two very slim volumes, both written by Anna Quindlen: A Short Gui...

Happy Mother's Day! I hope all you moms had a lovely day yesterday with your child(ren). We spent the weekend in Connecticut visit...

Ah, lovely weather here last week, but a rough week in our house. My son had a killer sinus infection that triggered a nasty flare-up of ...

Each weekend, Beth Fish Reads hosts Weekend Cooking .  This is perfect for me since I love food and cooking almost as much as I love book...

At Home with Books hosts Saturday Snapshot. Here are a few of my favorite photos from our brief camping trip last weekend to Elk Neck Sta...

With April, spring finally arrived here, much to our collective relief! The weather was lovely, and I was able to do more reading outside...

I recently read The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom for one of my book clubs. I started listening to it on audio and finished reading ...

We finally went camping this weekend! Woohoo! We hadn't had our pop-up camper out of the garage since last June, so we have all been ...

My neighborhood book group’s April selection was The Yokota Officer’s Club by Sarah Bird. From the description of the plot that I’d read,...

Happy Earth Day! We are finally getting some spring weather with lots of flowers and trees in bloom, though it still feels more like Marc...

Each weekend, Beth Fish Reads hosts Weekend Cooking .  This is perfect for me since I love food and cooking almost as much as I love boo...