Books and Chocolate

There's a meme going around for 20 books of summer, but when I started compiling this list I realized some of mine are real whopper...

I hadn't planned on reading two books by Thomas Hardy back-to-back, but Under the Greenwood Tree  was so short that I felt like I h...

According to my Goodreads account, I joined on March 3, 2008, and started making a list of books (mostly classics) that I wanted to read....

This meme's been going around the blogosphere, I'll play. All of these are books from my TBR shelves. I did not realize until I wrot...

After watching the Masterpiece drama Indian Summers  in 2015/2016 I became fascinated with the British Raj. I was really annoyed when t...

So I'm nearly a week behind with Classics Spin #17, but better late than never. My spin pick was One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes...

Sorry for the poor image quality. Not a lot of editions of this book. For a reason. It was bound to happen eventually: my favorite, mo...

The trouble with polyreading is that when I jump around from book to book, it takes me forever to finish anything -- and then I have a pi...

. . . she still kept to her rules -- one did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning, this...

I really like the cover of this paperback -- it's Table Devant Une Fenetre ( Table Under a Window)  by Henri Le Sidaner. I really c...