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...

Snapshot Saturday is hosted by West Metro Mommy Reads. Vacation photos, Part 2! Last week, I posted pictures of our camping trip in the...

My Big Book Summer Challenge is helping me tackle some of the books that have been sitting on my to-be-read shelves for far too long! For...

No, I didn't mis-type that post title - even though it is the end of August, I am just now summarizing my Books Read in July! We w...

Emma by Jane Austen was my second Big Book of the Summer , and had the distinction of being one of the books that has sat on my TBR shelf...

Things are finally slowing down a bit here and gradually returning to normal (whatever that is!). On Friday, I helped my 20-year old son ...

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...

Snapshot Saturday is hosted by West Metro Mommy Reads. It's been a couple of months since I've been home on a weekend and had t...

I'm back! Did you miss me? Oh, didn't notice I was gone, huh? lol I have been offline for most of the past three weeks, first o...

When my oldest son was in middle school, one of his favorite series was Caroline Lawrence’s The Roman Mysteries , featuring four friends in ...

Many years ago, I read Michael Crichton’s novel Congo about a gorilla named Amy who learned sign language, and it quickly became my favor...

Have you heard about SYNC? The SYNC YA Literature website is offering two new free audio books each week all summer! Every week, they p...

The creepy cover on UnSouled , the third book in the Unwind series by Neal Schusterman, says it all: you are in for more fast-paced freaky ...

We enjoyed our quiet week alone while our sons were off sailing with my mom and her husband on their annual grandkids' cruise with my...

Apparently, Chris Lynch is an award-winning YA author, but I’d never read any of his books before. So, I recently jumped at the chance to ...

My local bookstore, The Hockessin Bookshelf , hosts a unique kind of monthly book discussion called Eat, Drink, Read, where a local chef m...

Another hectic week with not a lot of time for reading. We went to go visit my dad who is recovering from surgery for cancer about mid-we...

There are so many movies coming this year that are adapted from books! I shared the trailer for The Giver last month. The latest trailer re...

Whew, where did June go? We've had a rough summer so far, with all kinds of family emergencies and extra health problems. Thank go...

I missed last Monday's post, in the midst of a flurry of activity and travel. We were out in Oklahoma, helping my father-in-law clean...