Bookfoolery

Please pardon the small image; I couldn't find a larger image of the correct cover photo. Reading about heat on a hot summer day is not ...

I've been trying to put a finger on what exactly it is about Mary Kay Andrews' books that I dislike. Savannah Blues is my second r...

The Sunday Tertulia was one of the many books I purchased at our outlet bookstore's Going-Out-of-Business sale, this past weekend. When...

Unfortunately, this stack is the result of our local outlet bookstore closing. So sad. We'll be back down to one bookstore, again.

I was so completely, totally blown away by this amazing, moving, wonderful, sad, beautiful book that I'm almost afraid to attempt to rev...

The Cruelest Miles tells the story of the famous Nome serum run, in which dog sled teams raced desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin from...

I'm in a bit of a post-vacation slump and working on a blog about our trip to Alaska, but should finish The Cruelest Miles very soon. H...

Peter Jenkins is well-known for his first travel memoir, in which he went searching for himself and his country in A Walk Across America . N...

I will be leaving for vacation, soon - an actual vacation of the variety in which one climbs aboard an airplane and flies to a cooler climat...

He wrote with a chewed-up pencil stub, in a little notebook which he had against his heart. He felt he had to hurry: something inside him wa...

Five things that are keeping me from my reading, this week: 1. Friends who drop by unannounced and then stay for 3 hours 2. Husbands who r...

The story of a college professor, Morris Schwartz, sharing some last lessons about life with one of his favorite former students as Morrie d...

I dropped by the bank to deposit a check, today, and noticed the teller had a gorgeous bouquet of flowers on the counter behind her. "W...

When I wrote my review of The School Run , I neglected to mention that the novel included a startling set of incidents that I found very dis...

From the cover: Meet seven very different people, all on the same route to school. Little do they know that over the course of one week the ...

Consider the Lily took me weeks to read - very unusual for me, especially if we're talking fiction; with non-fiction I often have to pi...

If you've followed my previous posts, you know my 14-year-old son and I have been sharing Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy. He finished read...

From Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy (Andi, you'll love this): "Once upon a time, a nice young half-Cherokee half-Irish girl went to c...

I've already mentioned this book in several other posts, so I'll just copy my "official" review and then babble on. Rememb...