In mid/late March, PBS will be launching two new series on Sunday nights:  " The Forsytes ," based on " The Forsyte Saga ...

Annoying thing #1 :  How the heck is it almost the end of November?? I need to get cracking with my Christmas shopping.... I did order T-shi...

" The Blue Castle " -- one of my favourite L.M. Montgomery novels (and one of my all-time favourite books, period) --  is coming ...

Right now... (an occasional meme, alternating from time to time with "The Current") Reading :  I read four (5) books in November...

Right now... (an occasional meme, alternating from time to time with "The Current") Reading :  5 (!) books in September (all rev...

Right now... (an occasional meme, alternating from time to time with " The Current ") Reading:   Currently reading: " Fed U...

Sorry for the downer of a previous post ... albeit it did feel good to vent a little. ;)  What can I say, it's November...!  We got o...

Is anyone else watching this season of " Poldark " on PBS Masterpiece Theatre (or have you seen it elsewhere that it's alrea...

My reading year began the same way the last one ended ;) with a good dose of the Poldark novels by Winston Graham, set in Cornwall in th...

The last three books I read in 2016 were from Winston Graham's Poldark series . As I've written before, I first read the Poldark...

The other night, I smelled it again . Smoke. Damnit. (It was Sunday night. Sunday nights seem to be smoking nights across the hall, for wha...

Right now... (an occasional meme):  Reading:  Mostly online articles via Facebook re: the U.S. election and its fallout. I have several h...

Going through some old posts from this time last year, and found this meme , originally done in July 2012 , and inspired by a similar 2012 p...

Going through some old posts, found this meme, originally done in July 2012 , and inspired by a similar post at  By the Brooke . Time for a ...

*  Back from a two-week visit with my parents. I had my laptop with me, but my time on it was limited. Not necessarily a bad thing. ;) * ...

Back in the mid-1970s, a neighbour pressed a paperback book upon my mother. "You MUST read this," she said. So Mom did -- and th...