During my recent ill health I turned to L. M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle as a comfort read of sorts.  My mother was here to help...

It has been an excellent year of reading!  Going over the list of books that I read this year made me so thankful that I have access to the ...

 photo credit: Ali Eminov Have you heard of the Little Free Library ? From the website: It’s a “take a book, return a book” gather...

In the remote Roman garrisons in northern Britain, young Paul witnesses devastating barbarian attack which destroys the fort he has calle...

  Strange Things was first presented as a series of four lectures at Oxford University in 1991 as part of the Clarendon Lecture Series ...

I have never read a word written by Marcel Proust, nor have I ever felt the urge to do so.  The reputation for difficulty earned by Prous...

Margaret Edson’s W;t was a tiny little book that jumped out at me from the classics shelf at my local library.  I always find it interes...

Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad is part of the Canongate Books series of top shelf authors retelling the greatest myths of the wor...

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

On 17 January 1958, the McClelland and Stewart publishing house launched the New Canadian Library , a paperback series aimed at the gen...

[These primeval solitudes] suspend your forced sense of your own importance not merely as individuals, but even as men.  They allow you,...