Happy Thanksgiving.   The turkey is thawed and in the fridge, everything needed has been bought and I am feeling just a bit bad that I did not bring home one of the library’s many, many Thanksgiving books.    Ah well.   One of my duties as a page is shelf reading, which is in fact usually every [...]

Long time readers of this site already know that I am a huge Larry McMurtry fan,  and I have previously reviewed When The Light Goes,  McMurtry’s recently published fourth book in the story of Duane Moore of Thalia, Texas.  So when I came across this memoir in New Releases biography,  I grabbed it right up [...]

A huge Thank You today to my friend Bev who brought Diane Hammond’s wonderful novel Hannah’s Dream to my attention via a review on her books blog.    It is very rare for me to read an entire novel in one sitting,  but Hannah’s Dream was so engaging and compelling that I quite literally could not [...]

Sometimes,  you just have to break the mold.   That certainly seems to be the attitude of the editors and publisher of BOMA Books a new London UK publisher that is now offering its very limited edition a book of JEWS which is easily one of this year’s most unique and noteworthy offerings.    Weighing in at [...]

First,  my sincerest thanks to everyone who commented about their favorite Children’s book on last Friday’s post.    I had not really meant to leave it up so very long,  but things have just been lined up against my best attempts at regular Monday and Tuesday posts.   Monday at work was hellishly busy, then we had [...]