Staircase Wit

Ninety-year old Margaret Riley is a cantankerous old lady living alone with her memories. Her one pleasure is the weekly trip to the librar...

For those of us who enjoy historical fiction, especially when set during WWII, it is a pleasure to encounter a book that reveals a new aspec...

I squeezed in quite a few books in August, thanks in part to several days off in Cape Cod at a lovely house my sister rented (I accidentally...

Few books could be as intense or memorable as Wein’s award-winning Code Name Verity (2012), set in Gestapo headquarters in Nazi-occupied Fr...

I am usually wary of books everyone promises I will love but when my friend Susan told me to read This Book Made Me Think of You , I immedia...

If one has to be an orphan, it is helpful to be an heiress, however modest, and be reasonably attractive. Laura Fane has “white skin, dark ...

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...

I became a huge fan of Louise Penny, not after reading book 1, Still Life , in her Three Pines series but while listening to book 2, A Fatal...