Fleur Fisher, in her post about The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady at the end of December got me thinking. I've loved this un...

In my early 20s one of my absolutely favourite books was Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist .  The lure of Macon Leary's reclusi...

Marilyn Halvorson lives on a cattle ranch near Sundre, Alberta.  She is a teacher, and the author of several well-known YA novels set in ...

The Little Free Library Project I decided at the beginning of 2014 that I would read exclusively from my own shelves for the first ...

I found another unfinished review from last month.  I am feeling well enough to read now that I no longer have to take pain killers that mud...

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...

My first book of 2014 was intended to start me out on the path I intend to follow this year.  I have decided that I need to read more sho...

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 ...