Belle, Book, and Candle

"Where's Papa going with that axe?" That has got to be the greatest opening line ever! In case you don't recognize ...

 Henry David Thoreau (1854) by Samuel Worcester Rowse My book of the year for 2012 was The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B. Wh...

E.B. White 1899-1985 Happy Birthday to E.B. White who was born this day in 1899. Mr. White was a contributing editor to The New Yorker ...

Here is a Valentine's Day myth I was not familiar with but which I find amusing. Michael Sims writes about today in Darwin's Or...

I have already pulled off my shelves three books that I bought in 2012 and that I have been saving to read this year.  It has been a fe...

Last night I started reading a book I have had for a while: The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime edited by Michael Sims. Sims is ...