Fantasy and mythology are generally not my reading genres of choice (although there have been occasional exceptions).  When I first heard Si...

I recently finished reading " Regeneration " by Pat Barker, part of another "slow readalong" with Simon Haisell at Footn...

Footnotes & Tangents ' final "slow readalong" of the year is " The Blue Flower " by Penelope Fitzgerald.  We sta...

For the past five weeks, I've been taking part in another "slow read" led by Simon Haisell at  Footnotes & Tangents .  (I...

(Once again, odds & ends for #MM -- but hey, it's what I've got right now...!  In no particular order:)  It's our Thanksgivi...

My latest book is one I've been reading over the last few months as part of another "slow read" guided by Simon Haisell at Foo...

" The Siege of Krishnapur " by J. G. Farrell -- winner of the 1973 Booker Prize -- is the first of four new "slow readalongs...

" The Mirror and The Light " is the third and final installment in the Cromwell trilogy by the late, great British writer Hilary M...

Like many avid readers (and English majors), I attempted to read " War and Peace " by Leo Tolstoy in my young and foolish years. (...

" Bring Up the Bodies " is  the second book in  Hilary Mantel 's "Cromwell Trilogy," which I am reading as part of a...

" Wolf Hall " the much-acclaimed novel by the late, great  Hilary Mantel , has been in my TBR pile almost from the time it was pub...