Books and Chocolate

The outside world was full of shapes and colors that were impossible to remember for ever, constantly lost, but seeking them out, pursuing t...

Have you finished the Back to the Classics Challenge? Congratulations! This is  where you'll link up to your  Challenge Wrap-Up Post,  a...

  Third time's the charm? I've failed spectacularly on my last two attempts to participate in the Classics Spin . I'm down to th...

  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's back! Hosted by Tamara at Thyme for Tea , Paris is July is one of my favorite summer reading events. I have six possible reads this...

Time for another Big Book Summer Challenge ! I was so happy to find Suzan's challenge last year -- I finished ten big fat books, eight o...

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...

  Last year just before COVID hit I wrote this post about a production of The   Merry Wives of Windsor at the Folger Shakespeare Theater in...

It's April and that means Fanda's annual Zoladdiction , a celebration of the life and works of Emile Zola (1840-1902). After putting...

  I love books written in the inter-war period; I love memoirs; and I love the middlebrow author Dorothy Whipple, so One Fine Day checks off...