The Lost Symbol Dan Brown Doubleday 509 pages Get it from Amazon I confess: I pre-ordered Dan Brown’s latest book, The Lost Symbol so I would have it in my hands on the day it was released. It’s not that I think Brown is the greatest writer in the world – he’s not – but [...]

Today in my mailbox there was something I expected – an envelope containing the notebooks I’d ordered from Field Notes, in their new autumn colors, and a book: Dandelion: the Extraordinary Life of a Misfit. I don’t remember if I agreed to review the book, or asked for it in some other fashion, but it’s [...]

Drinking with George: A Barstool Professional’s Guide to Beer George Wendt Get it at Amazon >> One of my favorite parts about my work with online magazine All Things Girl is that I often get to review books before they come out, so that I can interview the authors. Recently, George Wendt, whom most people [...]

Indigo Awakening: A Doctor’s Memoir of Forging an Authentic Life in a Turbulent World by Dr. Janine Talty, DO Get it from Amazon >> Before Janine Talty became a doctor, her life wasn’t exactly a downtown Disney hotel. A social misfit, dyslexic to the point of being almost aphasic, and the recipient of several metaphysical [...]

I have to confess: Until today, I had never heard of Book Blogger Appreciation Week. I knew more about natural acne treatment than I did about this annual event, and I certainly wasn’t aware there was a whole site dedicated to it. I’m glad I discovered it though, thanks to a comment from Alita of [...]

On Thursday, September 17th, Booking through Thursday asked: What’s the most enjoyable, most fun, most just-darn-entertaining book you’ve read recently? (Mind you, this doesn’t necessarily mean funny, since we covered that already. Just … GOOD.) Reading voraciously may not be the best way to lose belly fat, but it certainly keeps me entertained. While I’m [...]

A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris Get it from Amazon >> Just as looking at a jumbled pile of Ferrari parts doesn’t hint at the beauty of a finished car, so, too, does the first novel in a series not really give an adequate picture of the entire collection. I’ve now finished the second [...]

Real Murders by Charlaine Harris Get it at Amazon >> When a friend gave me almost the entire collection of Charlaine Harris’s Aurora Teagarden mysteries to read, I was a little bit leary. After all, this was the same woman who had captured my attention with the Sookie Stackhouse books. How would her earlier series [...]

Dove by Robin L. Graham Get it from Amazon >> I bought the book Dove shortly after re-reading Maiden Voyage, because it kept showing up on Amazon’s list of “people who bought this book also liked…” and reading about people going to see on sailing ships is a welcome respite from the world of articles [...]

Technically this should be a Sunday Salon entry, but I slept through half of Sunday, and spent the other half cleaning, so I’m writing a chattery post now because I’m in the middle of half a dozen novels, but not done enough with any to write reviews…yet. Lately, I’ve been in a mystery mood – [...]