Belle, Book, and Candle

I searched for the book Making a Literary Life ( here ) and was happy to find a used hardcover copy at Powell's online bookstore. As I...

The books I have read on books that influenced or deeply affected or changed a life in some way have all featured writers. What makes The ...

About a year ago, I wrote of the British Library Crime Classics with their terrific, artful covers ( here ). I never did get around to purch...

The Case of the Missing Books is not so much a mystery as a comic novel. To be sure, there is the mystery: who stole the 15,000 bo...

Start with England in the 1930s. Add the author of tomes ranging in subjects from penguins to ponies, lighthouses to lilies, churches to ...

Oh, how I love a book list. There is a new one that came out recently from the Library of Congress.  A little background: In 2012,...