Belle, Book, and Candle

Here is what author Jean Hersey has to say about February in her book  The Shape of the Year (1967).  These are weeks of fires, and fr...

In preparation for my Month of Letters which begins tomorrow, I checked a couple of books out of the library to get me motivated. The Ple...

Mirabile Dictu  writes that she enjoys reading middlebrow fiction. I enjoy reading Middlebrow Mysteries. Nothing too gory, too psycholog...

"Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk." Sinclair Lewis: Elmer Gantry (1926) Pict...

Your Life in Lists To list or not to list, that is the question. It seems as if book lovers are also list lovers. We list books to be ...

Bridge can be deadly! Today I sampled two of the tales in the 2012 Best American Mysteries introduced by Robert Crais. The first one, ...

I am a big fan of the Idea of Writing Letters. Therefore, I am waiting patiently (sort of) for my name to come up on the library's r...