Staircase Wit

Dannie Faber has a comfortable life as a children’s book illustrator; her children are adults and she splits her time between affluent Belmo...

It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best . We all start at the same place as other readers, add six book...

Like many of the books I enjoyed growing up, Date with a Career is about a girl starting school in a new place; however, it is also about h...

Mary Pat Fennessy lives in public housing in South Boston, working as a health aide at a nursing home, trying to pay her bills and worrying ...

Title : Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing, and Wisdom Author : Patti Bender Publication : City Point Press, hardcover, 2023 Genr...

Concord, Massachusetts in December is an attractive place and I was in the mood to visit on Saturday, particularly because the library was h...

Title : I’m Deborah Sampson Author : Patricia Clapp Publication : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., hardcover, 1977 Genre : Juvenile historica...

Title : The Bound Girl Author : Nan Denker Publication : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, hardcover, 1957 Genre : Juvenile Historical Fiction Se...

Title : Things You Save in a Fire Author : Katherine Center Publication : St. Martin’s Press, hardcover, 2019 Genre : Fiction Setting : Pres...

Title : Show Me a Sign Author :  Ann Clare LeZotte Publication : Scholastic Press, hardcover, 2020 Genre : Young Adult/Historical Ficti...

Finishing School: Further Studies in Schoolgirl Literature is primarily a group for literary analysis and general discussion of children...

This is my final entry in the # 1965Club , which collected reviews of books published in 1965. Who else remembers this iconic cover?

Question 1 Better access to Nurses is preferred until Fear of high costs equals No Question 2 Repeal Citizens United so Koch Broth...

Title : The Witch of Willow Hall Author : Hester Fox Publication : Graydon House, trade paperback, October 2018 Genre : Historica...

Title : Split Rock Author : Holly Hodder Eger Publication : Trade Paperback, Conzett Verlag, 2016 Genre : Fiction Plot : After inherit...

Title : The Fairy Tale Girl Author : Susan Branch Publication : Illustrated Hardcover, Spring Street Publishing, November 2015 Genre : M...

Title : Bellagrand         Author : Paullina Simons Publication : William Morrow, hardcover, March 2014 Genre : Historical Fiction   S...

thank you to cartoonist Victor Harville!