Belle, Book, and Candle

Here is my reading agenda for the week: So Big by Edna Ferber - I was totally captivated with the start of this Pulitzer Prize-winn...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School (2013). Not onl...

One of the classics that Kevin Smokler looks at in his book Practical Classics is John Steinbeck's Cannery Row .  The action of thi...

Kevin Smokler I love reading books about other books... Clifton Fadiman ( The Lifetime Reading Plan ),  Michael Dirda (anything by him)...