Star Trek: Traitor Winds by L. A. Graf A few weeks ago, I was desperate for some escapist comfort reading. You might think that reading half of everything Elin Hilderbrand had ever written would count as comfort reading, but it doesn’t. Hilderbrand’s Nantucket novels are beach reading. I wanted something light, familiar, and completely unrelated [...]

Generally speaking, I do try to do as much green shopping as possible. I refuse plastic grocery bags, instead using my own cloth bags, I try to find things in the least amount of packaging, and when I’m forced to use veggie bags, I always reuse them. Even though I still haven’t broken my addiction [...]

On Thursday, July 15th, Booking through Thursday asked: Well, folks, I don’t know about where you are, but right here, it’s HOT. So … when you think about “hot reading,” what does that make you think of? Beach reading? Steamy romances? Books that take place in hot climates? Or cold ones? When I’m hot, I [...]

Sometimes I feel like I’m more likely to buy gold coins from a famous pirate than to ever catch up on book reviews. Upcoming reviews you should look for: The House on Oyster Creek, by Heidi Jon Schmidt The Way I See It, by Melissa Anderson Passage From England, by Frank Zajaczkowski The Blue Bistro, [...]

Prairie Tale: a Memoir Melissa Gilbert Gallery, 384 pages Get it from Amazon >> I’ve been a fan of Melissa Gilbert ever since the first episode of “Little House of the Prairie” first aired, but I hadn’t realized she’d published her memoir until I saw it for sale among the souvenirs of “Little House on [...]

The God of the Hive Laurie R. King Bantam, 368 pages Get it from Amazon >> I’ve been a fan of Laurie R. King’s series about Mary Russell and her older husband, the legendary Sherlock Holmes, since the first book hit the stores, so of course, I had to have the latest adventure the very [...]

The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story by Julia Reed Harper Perennial, 224 pages Get it at Amazon >> Julia Reed’s The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story may be her memoir of the renovation of the home she buys (across the street from Anne Rice’s old place) with her husband, [...]

I never answered last week’s Booking Through Thursday, so am doing so now, to get it in under the wire: On Thursday, May 27th, Booking through Thursday asked: What books do you have next to your bed right now? How about other places in the house? What are you reading? My book collection is rather [...]

These Happy Golden Years Laura Ingalls Wilder HarperCollins, 304 pages Get it from Amazon >> Two weeks ago, my husband and I went to see Little House on the Prairie: the Musical which was based on the last five of the nine “Little House” books that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about her pioneer girl childhood. [...]