Belle, Book, and Candle

My literary life in the past week has been pretty much nonexistent. I am reading another Catherine Aird mystery but nothing else right now. ...

Rick Bragg is a journalist and a Southerner. This means he can tell a heck of a story in a few words and leave the reader laughing or cry...

Imagine if you will, that you are 25 years old and your wealthy paternal grandfather has died and left you a million dollars. Yet, before...

I decided I would begin reading my free ebooks (based on this list ) with George Eliot's Adam Bede . I fired up my Kindle and was d...

It seems as if I am not only a collector of real books, but I now have quite a stockpile of ebooks. Granted, they don't take up any ...

Hunter Museum of American Art Chattanooga I spent three days last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The city has the distinctive Hunt...

Those of you of a certain age will surely remember the nightly news anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. The Huntley-Brinkley Repor...