Books and Chocolate

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...

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 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...

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...

No civilization had lasted for more than a few thousand years; this present one, called western culture, had had its day and was due for wre...

  Within a few weeks funerals were to become a common occurrence in that village; but at this time they were rather scarce and looked forwar...

Cover of the 1975 edition, of which I now have 2 copies As I read a lot of middlebrow fiction, Rumer Godden is a writer that's been on m...

He pitied widows, but he mistrusted them.  They knew too much.  As free as unmarried women, they were fully armed; this was an unfair advant...