I know I haven't posted which books I read over the summer. I promise you they were vast and varied, and I didn't write them down. One of...

"The Anthropocene is a proposed term for the current geological age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its...

Our flight was cancelled last month as we tried to make our way back home from Orlando (another blog for another day), and the hotel we...

I've been spending a lot of time lately in the car on long drives (think 7 hours each way, 22 hours each way-- you get the picture). Most...

I discovered Heather Gudenkauf about five years ago. And then as usually happens with me, author names got out of my brain as do titles,...

The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain is southern fiction thick in the historical civil rights era. It is about chances...

Jane Eyre is by far my favorite novel. It is the one I come back to and reread every summer, lingering over the lines and the sweeping...

I met Daniel Mitchell many years ago during my MFA program. It was evident to me then, listening to his works in progress, that he was...

If you haven't read Wiley Cash before, start now. He won't disappoint. Set in North Carolina in the 80s, Cash does a great job of...

The Disappearing Act by Catherine Steadman lent itself nicely to a quick weekend flight to Florida to visit a friend. I started it on the...

"Some castles are haunted by more than ghosts" is what is written on the back side of the cover on Kate Moretti's newest novel Girls of...

This can be a very short book recommendation. GO OUT AND DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK. That's really all I need to say, except there is a lot of...

This was the first audio book I listened to on the start of my 31 hour solo road trip last week. I downloaded it free from my libary...

I had 31 hours of solo car drive to do last week, (Yes, you read that correctly, 31 of a solo car drive ) so I opted for some audio...

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." And from there the everyday life of Clarissa Dalloway is present for all to read....

Another debut novel by a new writer! The Sanatorium is a a crime thriller set against the backdrop of an old sanatorium turned into spa...

It seems lately I've taken to reading "debut" novels by authors who instantly become national bestsellers. Jill Santapolo already has...

If you somehow managed to make it through high school without ever reading To Kill a Mockingbird, then I would have to say as a reader,...

I know there has been a lot of controversy regarding cultural appropriation in Jeanine Cummins' novel American Dirt, but I want to just...

As I read this book, I saw it playing in my head- a movie reel forwarding frame to frame. Although I can't seem to find any indication...