Books and Chocolate

Scandalous!! Grace Metalious blew the roof off the image of the quaint New England Town in her 1956 shocker Peyton Place. Ostensibl...

Among the twenty books by Anthony Trollope that I own is Rachel Ray .  It's not one of his most famous books compared to the Barche...

Well, I didn't think it could happen, but it did.  Zola has disappointed me, in a very big way.   Nana  is the twelfth book by Zola t...

Okay, quick survey. . .  what is the worst cover of a book you've read so far in 2014? And how does it compare to this one : Ho...

Oh, I am such a pushover when it comes to the Classics Club Spin!   If you're not familiar with it, participants in the Classics Club...

So, it's done.  I'm finished.  I've completed Moby-Dick -- that is, if you count listening to an audiobook the same as readi...

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

So, I'm up to Chapter 90 of Moby-Dick .  I really did mean to finish by July 15, but I'm pretty certain that's not going to h...

Happy Bastille Day!!!  I haven't been reading nearly as much French literature this month as I wanted, but the other day I was lucky ...

I found this great meme created by The Book Jotter (via Helen's blog, She Reads Novels ).  The idea is to look back at the books yo...