As someone who has been blogging about life without children for six (!) years now -- and living the life for 12 (!!) -- I often get comme...

(Warning: This post contains spoilers!)  Having plowed through " The Hunger Games " earlier this fall, I was compelled to keep...

Wow. Well. I had heard the hype about " Gone Girl " by Gillian Flynn -- so many people seemed to be reading it & raving ab...

Growing up in the 1970s, Linda Ronstadt was THE female voice on the airwaves.  (And what a voice!) I had quite a few of her albums. When ...

I ordered " Cracked Open " by Miriam Zoll from Amazon , & began reading it after Pamela mentioned she had included it on h...

Over the last few years, my reader friends (both online & "in real life") have been raving about three series of novels:  th...

I actually read these two books before my vacation, and before reading the four books I recently wrote about here.  By all rights, I guess I...

 (Not necessarily reviewed in the order read.) In the summer of 1978 (I just realized -- 35 years ago??!! yikes... :p ), when I was 17 ...

I was 14 years old in 1975, and at the top of my Christmas/birthday wish list was " Dreamboat Annie , the debut album by a new band c...

I love to read -- but no matter how much you love to read, or how many books you read, period, there will always be some books that, for w...

** There will be some spoilers in this post, so consider yourself warned. ** The plot of “ The Fault in Stars ” by John Green -- this...

I didn't consciously plan to follow up reading " Plutocrats " by Chrystia Freeland with " The Great Gatsby " by F. ...