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I have made it a goal to read everything George Saunders has ever written and in another step toward that goal I read CivilWarLand in Bad De...

I don't want to say too much about Slade House because it's a novel that's best left a bit mysterious for the sake of letting t...

Aa   Alligators think you'd like them if you got to know them.  Bb   Bears sometimes want their mothers to kiss it better.  ...

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson is the true...

Having never loved or been loved in that previous place, they were frozen here in a youthful state of perpetual emotional vacuity; inter...

I read An American Family by Khizr Khan near the end of September so there are details I've forgotten. But, the one thing that reall...

Oona Lee goes to Sand Dancer Academy but she feels out of place. Clumsy in a way her big sister never would have been, she struggles to k...

Rancho Santa Elena in the 1980s is a quiet town where residents leave their doors unlocked and their windows open. Violent crime is alm...

Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson was actually due back at the library yesterday but I wasn't quite finished so it will go back thi...

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl Copyright 2014  Random House - fiction Source: Random House via TLC Tours Brief synopsis:   WARNING - If...

One of my goals for 2013 (which I haven't bothered to write about -- just don't feel like writing down my goals, this year) is to at...

This week made my head spin! We're almost done de-pinking the Pink Room in our new house. Woot! I'll post an "after" ph...

I don't have a great deal to say about either of these books, although I enjoyed them both for very different reasons. So . . . mini re...

The Ghost of Greenwich Village by Lorna Graham Copyright 2011 Random House - Fiction with Paranormal 345 pages After many years of working f...

Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli Copyright 2010 Crown - Nonfiction/Travel Memoir 279 pages I longed for a way of life in which people made it...

The Girl Who Chased the Moon By Sarah Addison Allen Copyright 2009 Bantam Books - Fiction 269 pages Book Description: Bugger. Can I skip th...