Belle, Book, and Candle

Just in time for the Winter Solstice on December 21, here are the books you suggested for Our Winter Shelf. Many of you chimed in with...

I adore a man in a kilt and when that man happens to be Alexander McCall Smith, well, then I swoon. And swoon I did last Thursday ...

I had quite a literary visit yesterday with my neighbor The Professor. I have mentioned him before...he is in his eighties, is a retired...

If you can bear one more Jane Austen post, then read on.  I stumbled across this  article  by Kate Hutchings in which she takes a lo...

I can't tell you how helpful and entertaining A Jane Austen Education  (2012) was. Author William Deresiewicz mixes memoir, biograph...

Normally, I read my mystery stories at bedtime. I sometimes lose track of the characters and the action - I tend to nod off - but that d...

Photograph:VisitBritain/Rod Edwards/Getty Images I hope I have found a new mystery writer to follow. I downloaded from the library the ...

Our Jane I am not really sure why, but I just don't 'get' Jane Austen. It took me forever to read Pride and Prejudice ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a Barnes and Noble gift card must be in want of many books. ...