Belle, Book, and Candle

I have attended two author events at the public library in the past couple of weeks. I love going to these well-attended affairs. Even thoug...

So many of us Bookish Ones love to read about writers and catch glimpses of the places they work. We want to make pilgrimages to thei...

To meet a handsome fellow from London who also owns a secondhand bookstore that carries mostly books by English authors or books about o...

Poster by Maggie Appleton on Flickr All hail the Dewey Decimal System. This helpful classification created by Melvil Dewey, an Americ...

Deborah Cavendish,  Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and a few friends I was quite distraught to hear of the death last week of Debora...

After reading Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, I felt as if I had become friends with its author Dani Shapiro...

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton If you have heard of Marcel Proust raise your right hand. If you have read his I...