Staircase Wit

In this romantic suspense novel, a young woman on a trip to the Holy Land finds herself in danger and does not know who she can trust or eve...

Title : The Moon-Spinners Author : Mary Stewart Publication : William Morrow, hardcover, 1962 Genre : Romantic Suspense Setting : 20th centu...

October was a busy month with a business trip to Tulsa (no direct flights, so lots of reading time), some reading for the 1962 Club, and hos...

WWW Wednesday is hosted by Taking on a World of Words . The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish read...

Title : Literary Trails Author : Christina Hardyment Publication : The National Trust/Harry N. Abrams, hardcover, 2000 Genre : Nonfiction Ha...

Fiction The Proper Place by O. Douglas (1926): After Sir Walter dies, his family is forced to sell the family estate and move to a modest h...

I got a lot of reading done in September considering I was away for more than two weeks. This may be why my suitcase hasn’t made it back up ...

The whole affair began so very quietly.  When I wrote, that summer, and asked my friend Louise if she would come with me on a car trip to Pr...

An early start with chocolate croissants (and chatting with a nice couple from Nashville) before we boarded a bus for Arles. Our tour guide...

On Sunday morning we got up early to visit the Nimes cathedral in which David hides in chapter 5 of Madam, Will You Talk? The Nimes nightl...

The afternoon’s trip to Pont du Gard ended well but was nearly a disaster. We found the bus stop described by the tourism official quite ea...

We were at the Nimes Tourism Office before it opened at 9 am to seek advice about visiting the Pont du Gard, which is between Nimes and Avig...

I knew Friday would be the most stressful day and I am happy to report that we survived and I only became enraged once or twice. Fortunatel...

After our trip to Paris and Provence was canceled in 2019 and 2020, it was hard to believe it would actually ever happen, but here we are! D...

The 1965 Club  is a meme in which two prolific bloggers, Simon from  Stuck in a Book  and Karen from  Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings , promo...

Title : Same Beach, Next Year Author : Dorothea Benton Frank Publication : William Morrow, Trade Paperback, April 2018 (originally publish...

Title : A Relative Stranger Author : Anne Stevenson Publication : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Hardcover, 1969 Genre : Romantic Suspense Plot :...

My younger sister gets an email from the school library every time her six year old checks out a book.  This would have infuriated me as a ...

Susanna Kearsley is such a gifted writer I cannot figure out why her books are not better known. I sometimes wonder if it is because she is...