Belle, Book, and Candle

When I was growing up I often spent time with a relative who had a subscription to The New Yorker magazine. She had traveled to that met...

I once went on an undercover writing assignment for a magazine to have my palm read. I sat with the palm reader on her screened-in porch ...

I don't often write about movies - this is a book blog after all - but I recently watched one that has such literary connections t...

  An example of Victorian mourning jewelry featuring woven hair. Somewhere in the collection of jewelry passed down to me from my g...

Although I have become a convert to the joys of my library's ebook collection, there is still something to be said for actually visit...

I do like reading a book about books, although the books mentioned in this one won't be found on your library's shelf.  Too bad. ...

This morning I read a New York Times interview with one of my favorite authors Bill Bryson. The Q&A was in the newspaper's By Th...