I'm combining two challenges: The Classics Club Spin (the 28th such spin) and Victober , which is designed to encourage the reading of ...

Our Purple Mountain Ash tree ready for its yearly dump of leaves.   Our deck this morning after a rainy, windy night. A close-up of the leav...

Hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best Six Degrees of Separation We begin with ↓ The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson Jacks...

Title: We Begin At the End by Chris Whitaker Book Beginnings quote:  Walk stood at the edge of a feverish crowd, some he'd known since ...

Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish pet peeves.   The first time I answered these questions I was a working librarian. My answers have changed a bit si...

Weather: In transition. Yesterday and the day before the sun was out, the sky was blue, and the last nice weather of the year was glorious....

After reading through the 2021 National Book Award longlist for fiction last week I investigated each of the ten books a little further so ...

Title: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri  Book Beginnings quote (from "A Temporary Matter"): The notice informed them tha...

Top Ten Tuesday: Books Others Seem to Love More Than Me I know everyone has different tastes, but as bloggers we often read books that other...

Back in 1925 Virginia Woolf published a masterpiece of literature: Mrs Dalloway. It was very avant-garde for the time in the modernist styl...