The Girl in the Glass, which I've just finished, is the first book by Susan Meissner I've yet read.  But not the last.  I certai...

The goal in this challenge is to support our local libraries and I do love libraries, having used them all my life, most especially our S...

The Savage Garden , by Mark Mills, was a pretty terrific novel, a mystery that turns out to be a double cold case involving a fifteenth ...

T his latest novel, Black Diamond , (that I've read as yet) of Martin Walker's mystery series, "of the French Countryside...

T his has to be the perfect book for mystery lovers and cold case fans, who are also interested in wines, the whole business from grapes...

 J ust finished Picnic in Provence , another lovely food filled memoir by Elizabeth Bard, author of Lunch in Paris. Though I think I enj...

Some of you might wonder, why is she posting about Mochi on Thanksgiving?  Well, no special reason, it's just what I decided to mak...

Our current selection for  Cook the Books Club is, of course, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots , by Jessica Soffer. Plenty of angst here....

  F or some reason (Foodies will probably concur) I think this kind of thing is fun.  Breaks up the old cooking ruts.  Get a bunch of le...