Books and Chocolate

 Congratulations to Joseph at The Once Lost Wanderer !  Joseph  won a $30 gift card so he can get even more books to read in 2022!  Many tha...

  Have you finished the Back to the Classics Challenge? Congratulations! This is  where you'll link up to your  Challenge Wrap-Up Post, ...

I found this book several years ago at an antique bookstore in Fredericksburg, TX, a very cute little town outside of San Antonio, full of b...

Original 1940 dust jacket cover Like all artists -- all painters, all musicians, all poets, even some of those plodding recorders, the novel...

My fourth book for this years Paris in July is The Loved and Envied, a Virago reprint I've owned for several years (I can't even rem...

  I am extremely pleased with myself for finally finishing this book! I bought it more than ten years ago on a visit to the Frick Museum in ...

  I thought I'd start Paris in July with a short, fun book. Margery Sharp's  Martha in Paris  fit the bill perfectly -- only 166 pa...

It's July already, the year is half over -- how did this happen? But for me July will always include the Paris in July reading challenge...

Cover of a 1969 reprint. This one is pretty much perfect. So, how is everyone's summer reading going? Anyone in the mood for a beach rea...

In the history of the world it is only we -- we who are young now -- who are really going to know about life.  I bought this Virago Modern C...