Bookfoolery

Talk about an unusual read for this bookfool! I don't read true crime, anymore, and seldom read crime novels for the same reason. I used...

I keep forgetting to post about these adorable journals and I finally realized why, last night. I'm accustomed to reading a book,...

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie is a classic 1930s mystery in which a person is murdered on a train just before it becom...

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman was a reread for me and I'm not sure I ever actually wrote about it on the blog when I read it, be...

I very seldom read books about how to be happy because I think they tend to either have only a short-term effect or I find them impract...

After writing that last post, I realized there was no recent read left that I thought needed even mini review treatment, although a couple o...

The Tree by John Fowles came to me in ARC form in 2010 from HarperCollins, and I'm sure I looked at its slimness (at 91 pages, some r...

If you hang around here much, you probably already know my F2F group was provided 10 copies of Labor Day by Joyce Maynard .  I had alread...

In Labor Day by Joyce Maynard, an escaped prisoner asks a boy if he and his mother (who are shopping in a grocery store) will take him ho...

Not sure where I've managed to plunk my copy of Paperboy so look here for Paperboy by Tony Macaulay details  (that's a link to ...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Copyright 2013 William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) - Fantasy 178...

I am so embarrassed to admit that Flight Behavior is my first Barbara Kingsolver book after all the praise I've heard lavished upon ...

I need to knock out reviews even faster and all four of the following books are from my personal library.  There's really not all that m...

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You By Louisa Young Copyright 2011 HarperCollins - Historical Fiction/WWI 336 pages London, April 1916 Riley Purefo...