I don't often get out to the movies much anymore, so I usually wait until they show up on Netflix. Last night I watched THE KING'S ...

One of my very favorite of the 'idea' magazines WHERE WOMEN CREATE  has a terrific piece in the May/June/July issue (see cover abov...

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe

Robert B. Parker Well, as usual, I'm late to the show but what the heck. I've just learned that one of my favorite writers, Mississ...

Top Ten Tuesday is a Weekly Meme hosted by the gals over at THE BROKE AND THE BOOKISH.   Every week it's a new literary theme song. ...

(Couldn't find a poster in English that didn't feature just Ekberg.) Forgotten Films Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted b...

I reviewed the first half of Wilkie Collins' classic THE WOMAN IN WHITE  some days ago - at this link. So now I've returned with...

This is my second entry this month in the Agatha Christie Carnival hosted by Kerrie Smith over at her blog, MYSTERIES IN PARADIS...

...to all you daddies out there. Have an extra-special wonderful day.

Well, what can I say? It's been a week filled with an embarrassment of riches. Book-wise. Guess what arrived in the mail?  Go ahead,...

It's Saturday, so it's Art Appreciation Day ( as I like to call it )  around these parts. Winslow Homer 1836 - 1910 was an ext...

No, no, get it out of your mind . Immediately. This is not a book about vampires - actual vampires that is. Not at all. It's just a...

I know. How dare I do a post featuring a 'romance' novel as my entry in Friday's Forgotten Books meme? Well, I dare because t...

For those of you who love Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey stories and/or other assorted mysteries and dramas: did you know you co...

A book arrived in the mail today. ( Obviously it's been a great book week, library and  mail-wise.)   Marshall Browne is a wonderful ...