2014, Editions P.O.L (Le Royaume, original, French) My son-in-law Thomas and I read The Kingdom, about the early Christians, and then had...

Published 1791. I found this very little book (9 x 13 cm, 16 pages) while at the Jane Austen Center in Bath, hoping to spy Mr Darcy in...

2022, Nonexistent Publishers While the market is flooded with books on How to Write a Book, How-to-Not-Write-a-Book books are in short...

Published 1894 "I love this book so much that I'm posting it just to say so, more content coming soon," that was in 2019. Call me the...

by Marie Catherine Starr @momlife_comics Kelsey Borresen, Huffington Post, Jan 25, 2022, "These Comics Highlight The Unfair Ways Society...

The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy 2020, First Grove Atlantic Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, Wilmington's Lie...

2020, St Martin's Press In the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd in May 2020, preacher Michael Eric Dyson wrote of his...

Last week I handed the keys to my rented studio back to the owner, completing a nine-month room-of-my-own writing adventure. I learned...

1926, Alfred A. Knopf Sand and Foam by Khalil Gibran was recommended by Ali, my friend and web designer, who remembered this quote from...

Dear older generation, Young adults are depressed at the state of the world. It's been a rough few years with the pandemic, and now the...

from Sue You can replace "How to Write" above with any other project you're (not) working on. Tongue Twister a sweet tweet treats tweets...

2022, Penguin Random House Nicolae Ceauśescu, (chow-SHESK-oo), communist leader of Romania from 1965 - 1989, duped other world leaders...

1982, Flammarion Around the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I saw Ivan the Terrible staring out at me ominously from the cover...

2008, Editions Tallandier Like Anne Frank, Hélène Berr kept a journal during the Nazi occupation of her city; both died in the...

I Aucun de nous ne reviendra, 1965 II Une Connaissance Inutile, 1970 III Mesure de Nos Jours, 1971 Charlotte Delbo was arrested in 1942...

Stickeen, an essay by John Muir 1909, Houghton Mifflin I discovered Stickeen (read here) in a book of American essays of the 20th...

2013, Viking Yvonne, Jane and I discussed A Tale for the Time Being at our last bookclub meeting. After eating a lovely lunch, and...

2017, Constable A few months ago, in order to catch up on my posting backlog, I banned myself from reading books. Being an addict, this...

2003, St. Martin's Press Thanks to my friend Joan for this summary. In this historical fiction novel set in 19th century Hawaii, Rachel,...

2002, Librio In spite of being considered one of the best contemporary French writers by many, references to Houellebecq often include...