I’ve wanted to read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs ever since its release in 2011. Now...

I started reading graphic novels a few years ago and have enjoyed them very much. It’s nice to be able to squeeze a ...

Summer is kind of a low season for TV - especially this year with Graceland cancelled (one of my favorites) - but there is one summer show ...

Two weeks ago, ALONE in the house for an unheard-of four days, I was choosing a movie to watch. I decided to choose a documentary because ...

Ahhh...we enjoyed a lovely few days last week at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, one of our favorite places (see my Saturday Snapsho...

I signed up for the 2016 Classics Challenge this year, with the goal to read a classic every month. Suddenly, it wa...

Happy 4th of July, if you are in the U.S.! Enjoying a quiet morning before a busy evening with friends & family & fireworks. I w...

Saturday Snapshot is hosted by West Metro Mommy Reads. My husband and I are planning a short trip to Shenandoah National Park this wee...

I recently listened to a middle-grade audiobook that is the start of a new series: The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit...

--> I thoroughly enjoyed the first three books of Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle series and couldn’t wait to find out ho...

My most recent book read and reviewed for Publishers Weekly was Marriage on the Street Corners of Tehran by Nadia Shahram. You can read t...

Well, here it is June 29 already, but believe it or not, this is a big improvement in timeliness of my monthly summary for me compared wit...

We recently started watching the second season of Wayward Pines on Fox. It's a twisty-turny sci fi thriller, but I'm going to be ...

I am basking in the peaceful silence out on our back deck. One son is in Rhode Island, my husband left for a business trip to Las Vegas at...

After reading Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (my review at the link) last September for Banned Books Week , I was ea...