Books and Chocolate

I am a weak, weak person.  Did my last blog not mention how many books I was taking to the JASNA meeting?  Five? Six?  Not including a copy...

This is a late posting, but I wanted to let everyone know I'm in Philadelphia at the 31st Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen So...

Anthony Trollope is a sadly underrated and underappreciated classic British author.  Everyone knows Dickens, Austen, and the Brontes.  Even...

I've never been a fan of the adult fantasy genre, but for some reason, I am still drawn to juvenile works. I adored fantasy books when...

Banned books week! I was inspired by a display at my library to include TTYL by Lauren Myracle. All I knew about this book was that it w...

Finally, after months, actually years, of drought in south Texas, we have rain. Lots and lots of rain. Weeks and weeks of rain. (But techn...

This is one weird book. Unfortunately, not weird in a good way. This is not a book that had been recommended by anyone, or was on my to-read...

Oh, Emma. How I love you, and yet, how you frustrate and annoy me. Even Jane Austen wrote that she had created a heroine "whom no one ...

Meh. That is my initial to response to this hugely popular children's series. I don't know what I was expecting, but, certainly, a l...

To my mind, there is no better dessert than a warm chocolate chip cookie. I would choose this over almost any other dessert. And it's pe...