Title: The Typing Lady and Other Fictions by Ruth Ozeki First line of first story: "The Typing Lady: An Author's Note": I fi...

Top Ten Tuesday:  Fall 2026 Reading List (and How I Did On My Summer Reading List) Top Ten Tuesday: Fall Reading List.  Below the line is ho...

Title: Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie Book beginning, first snippet: When Captain Roger Angmering build himself a house in the year...

Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I Would Like to Meet and Visit Over a Cup of Coffee or a Glass of Wine Lately I've been including my husband an...

The family after the University of Oregon football game wearing duck hats given to us as a prize for winning by my younger sister, Grace. So...

Welcome to our first week as a combined Book Beginnings on Friday and Friday56 with a new name Friday Book Snippets. I am co-hosting this ...

Siddhartha: An Indic Poem by Hermann Hesse is my Classics Club Spin selection for this Fall. The book/poem was published in German by Herma...

WWW Wednesday is a weekly blog activity hosted by Taking on a World of Words . Rules: answer the three questions below and leave a link to y...

I'm off-topic today: Top Ten Tuesday: My favorites from the Goodreads 120 Best books of the Past Decade List See list here.             ...

Title: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Book Beginnings quote:  Kentucky, 1936: The librarian and her mule s...