Belle, Book, and Candle

This is my birthday week. In celebration of the fact that I have more books than I do birthday candles on my cake, I am giving some of t...

All of a sudden, twenty-four mysteries by Ellery Queen popped up in my library's ebook collection. There couldn't be too many mys...

I kept telling myself I wasn't going to go shopping at the semi-annual used book sale sponsored by Locust Grove Historic Home last weeke...

I am reading another book about books. A favorite pastime of mine. This one's clever title is  The Year of Reading Dangerously , writ...

We are all artists. Whether our creativity shows up in the kitchen, the garden, the easel, the blog post, the darkroom, the poem, or th...

I am always happy to discover a new tale in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. There is somet...

I read with interest a piece written by Stephen Marche and published in The Guardian this past week. In it Mr. Marche states that there ...