1. I'm about a third of the way into Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . How I missed this one until now, I have n...

Cheating today: this post originally went a few Augusts ago, but I'm stealing it because I don't have time to write a new one this w...

Reason #1 I haven't been blogging: I've been obsessively practicing mandolin and learning new tunes.  Tunes I've learned since t...

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,  Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,  Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, ...

An odd assortment of titles, perhaps--mystery, sci-fi, poetry--but it's my kind of odd! Paper bounty: Clairefontaine staple-bound noteb...

1. Bear with me for a moment on this first one...there is pencil content, I swear! If you've never read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I ...

Something just a little out of my usual realm today: a journey through some paperback cover art. I kinda sorta collect old mysteries, par...

1. TMI Ugh...yesterday I went in for a combined appointment for dental cleaning and an orthodontics adjustment. From basic braces, I am no...

1. I've been reading Leif Enger's Peace Like a River . I'm about halfway through at this point, and I have to say, if it contin...

Thanks for all the reading suggestions, folks! Some of the ones I looked for either weren't available at the local library (but can be ...

Apparently there are now some pretty fanatical Russian Wodehouse fans . Natalya Trauberg sounds like an amazing woman: That there is a Wode...