A Week in Review  Hello everyone at Sunday Salon , hosted by Deb Nance at Readerbuzz , Heather at the October Foodies Read, and Marge, h...

Well, hello all you folks out there in the Sunday Salon, Foodies Read, and elsewhere in the cosmos!  It's been an interesting week!  Wan...

  W hat an amazing book!  And, yes a true story, based on diaries and historical sources, The Zookeeper's Wife , by Diane Ackerman.  It...

  We at Cook the Books Club are currently reading  The Secret Life of Bees , by Sue Monk Kidd, hosted this round by Debra of Eliot's Eat...

  I just discovered, Jang, The Soul of Korean Cooking, by Mingoo Kang.  Well, it's a new trip for me anyway.  The Jang journey!  And a t...

I just finished this delightful novel set in a parochial English village, where everyone knows everyone else's business, and with many o...

  Our Cook the Books group have been reading and posting about  our current June/July selection, Family Tree by Susan Wiggs, which event I...

Our latest Cook the Books Club pick is the clever and very entertaining novel by Colleen Cambridge, Mastering the Art of French Murder . ...

  My problem is not a surfeit of books to read, but of Ngaio Marsh novels I haven't read.  I might be at the end, but now re-reading one...