I had a vague recollection of having written something about Cheryl Strayed's Wild at the beginning of December, but a lot of things fr...

I recently picked up Anna Quindlen's contribution to the Library of Contemporary Thought series entitled How Reading Changed My Life...

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book . - Thomas à Kempis When Nin...

I remember finding an ancient copy of this book on the library shelf in the late 1990's.  Because my arms were already full with othe...

Julie Devaney writes about her experiences with Ulcerative Colitis, a type of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in My Leaky Body: Tales from t...

All I knew about Anne Morrow Lindbergh before reading Gift from the Sea was that she was the wife of Charles Lindbergh the aviator, and...

When I saw this book on the shelf at the public library my interest was piqued.  I was raised by parents who believed in the power of b...

Having never read any of Dervla Murphy's writing before picking up her autobiography at the library last week, I only knew that she wro...

 Divided by the months of the year, we dip into the lives of Mayle and his (largely unmentionned) wife as they settle into life in thei...