Books and Chocolate

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...

  I've settled in nicely for Big Book Summer, and at one point last in June I was simultaneously reading THREE giant books between 600 a...

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...

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...

She loved studying and books, the way other people love wine for its power to make you forget. What else did she have? She in a deserte...

Willa Cather is mostly known for her novels set in the great prairies of middle America, and though I lived in Nebraska for three years...

About one million British men were killed during WWI -- and another 2 million wounded, almost 35% of their total forces.  A disproporti...

Recently I made the mistake of reading three really long books at the same time (well, technically, two very long books, and a very lon...

"Three or four families in an English village is the very thing to work on."  -- Jane Austen It's probably quite unfair...

I had a hard time choosing an adventure classic for the Back to the Classics Challenge .  I thought this was an easy pick --  originally ...