Books and Chocolate

  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...

It is both amusing and amazing to me that P. G. Wodehouse was able to recycle his own plots and characters over the course of his seventy ye...

Detail of "The Shower" by William Herbert Dunton.  The original is in the American Museum of Western Art in Denver, Colorado The M...

Wow, this cover is TERRIBLE.  I'm not going to spend too much time on this post, because to be perfectly honest, I don't think anyon...

I've been very bad the past year or so about my Classics Club list  -- I have thirteen books left on the list, and just about a year lef...

It is impossible that these volumes should be graced by any hero, for the story does not admit of one. But if there were to be a hero, Herbe...

Everyone knows that stories are imaginary. Whatever effect they might have on us, we know they are not true, even when they tell us truths m...

Last May I wrote this post in which I described my desire to complete reading all of William Shakespeare's plays in a year. At the time...

Years ago while living in Texas I was at the Half-Price Books in San Antonio whereupon I found this bought this adorably wee little volume o...

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...