Mansfield Park and patience
I’m posting this on Wednesday, May 17th, the day on which I am 380 pages into Mansfield Park. This lesser know Jane Austen novel traces …Read More
Category Archives: Book Reviews & Reading
Holiday children’s books worth a re-read
We've amassed quite a collection of Christmas books over the years. I think it was eight years ago or so that I jumped on the …Read More
Choosing next year’s reading project
During each of the past two years, I’ve done year-long reading projects. In 2021, I read through War and Peace one chapter at a time. Tolstoy’s …Read More
Shakespeare in the morning
As long-time readers know, this year I set a goal to read through all the works of Shakespeare. Last year I read Tolstoy's War and …Read More
Book Giveaway! (The May 2022 Edition)
I’m so excited about my next book, Tranquility by Tuesday, which is coming out this fall. In the meantime, I realized that it is possible …Read More
Quitting a book for now….
I spent some time this weekend reading Cold Mountain. I have been mostly enjoying the early part, particularly the description of the rural land around …Read More
Finishing (one day at a time)
I just read the final chapter of War and Peace this morning. Tolstoy's epic is long (my translation is 1455 pages) but it is divided …Read More
2500 books
Over on Twitter recently, I read a post from a man who mentioned that he was abandoning more books than he finished these days. He …Read More
Making spirits bright: A children’s Christmas book round-up
Long time readers know that my kindergartner has had an unhappy relationship with bedtime since babyhood. I am happy to say that things have improved …Read More
Books (from the past few months)
Long-time readers might remember that I posted a summary of books read each month from 2017 to sometime this spring. Then I just...stopped. Partly it's …Read More