Books and Chocolate

Detail of "The Shower" by William Herbert Dunton.  The original is in the American Museum of Western Art in Denver, Colorado The M...

Wow, this cover is TERRIBLE.  I'm not going to spend too much time on this post, because to be perfectly honest, I don't think anyon...

I only have one book left to finish for the TBR Pile Challenge , a massive omnibus of short stories by Katherine Anne Porter. (I keep b...

It took me more than a month, but I've finally completed Testament of Youth , Vera Brittain's classic memoir of World War I. I...

After making up my list for the TBR Pile Challenge , I realized that quite a few of my selections were in the 500+ pages range. I was p...

It's been quite a while since I read anything by Edith Wharton. She's the author of some of my favorite novels, and I've re...

I am always envious when bloggers mention how they just happened to find a Persephone at a charity shop or a used bookstore . Other tha...

I love it when I can combine online reading events like the Persephone Readathon with my annual reading challenges. This week was th...

Halfway through the first month of 2018, and I have completed exactly two books. That's it. If I plan on completing my goal of 100 bo...

Every so often, I drift away from blogging -- sometimes it just ends up feeling like homework. And yet inevitably, something is so irre...

Of all the books on my TBR Pile Challenge, this is the one I was dreading most, because I've owned it for so long. It was published...

I think the best thing about Adam's TBR Pile Challenge is that it inspires me to read those books that have been hanging around the b...

The Woman Warrior is the seventh book I read from my 2015 TBR Pile Challenge. I chose it in honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage mo...