Right now... (an occasional meme, alternating from time to time with " The Current "): Not believing: It's December!!  A l...

Googling articles about David Cassidy's sad passing this week, I stumbled on an article on CNN.com with a very familiar name in the b...

I had other books in mind for my next read when dh & I went to the movies a couple of weekends ago to see " Victoria & Abdul ...

The latest selection under discussion by my Yahoo book club devoted to fans of Scottish author  D.E. Stevenson  is " Five Windows ,...

My family has never owned a cottage (or cabin, or camp, or summer house, or whatever you want to call it) -- but I have spent time at cott...

As Texas battened down its hatches in anticipation of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey this weekend, I was reminded of a relevant book that...

After reading " All the President's Men ," I was still feeling in a political mood, so I decided to tackle a book that's...

Writing to you this week from my parents' home, where we're spending some time (as we usually do during the summer).   It's ...

I was 11 years old in the summer of 1972 (45 years ago -- yikes!!), when five men wearing suits and carrying photographic and surveillance...

" Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging " is an expanded version of an article that Sebastian Junger wrote for Vanity Fair -- a s...

I picked up " The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the 21st Century " by Stephen Marche because of (a) the int...

Around the same time that I finished David Grann's "The Lost City of Z" a few months ago (my review here ), I heard the auth...

Four years ago, Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, published a book called " Lean In: Women, Work and the Will...

Ariel Levy, author of "The Rules Do Not Apply" (which I just reviewed in my previous post ) discussed the book and her life on Cha...

"When thirty-eight-year-old New Yorker writer Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, f...

" Shoulder the Sky " (also known as "Winter and Rough Weather") by D.E. Stevenson  is the third volume in a trilogy my...

The Lost City of Z:  A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann had been languishing in my to-read pile for the last few yea...