If you are tired of hearing political opponents on both sides of the aisle lambasted with the same half-dozen dismal adjectives and...

I’ve been pre-reading a lot of middle-grade dragon books for my dragon obsessed readers in the house, and this one stood out. (Believe...

I just waded through three gloriously large books. The Shadow of What Was Lost, An Echo of Things to Come, and The Light of All that...

Sometimes when I don’t have time to get to the library I’ll read books on my phone. Which is great (except that I have to keep reminding...

This is probably the strangest and best memoir that I’ve ever read. Daniel writes from the perspective of his twelve-year-old self,...

Have you ever had a good cup of coffee? Not the stale kind you drink from the gas station when you’ve got an hour more to drive to get...

I have recently been published in an anthology of short fiction! You can buy the book or the ebook here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8HS...

I think Alexander McCall Smith’s book No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is fairly well known, but I ran across this other book by him the...

I’m not sure how this book sat on my To Read list so long without being read, but thankfully, due to the disaster of the library being...

My world has been overrun with dragons. There are pictures of dragons on my refrigerator. Stuffed dragons lying in the hallway....

I’m excited to review a book by an author I actually know! In the country of Moran there’s a song that only appears when the country of...

I don’t remember where I heard that Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons” was a good book or how it got on my list. For about...

A friend and I recently attended Bilbo Baggins’ 111th birthday party. That’s right. The Party of Special Magnificence itself! We didn’t...

Somebody else has written a book about a sentient house! I tend to enjoy sentient houses; it’s the side effects of being both a...

I have a strange fondness for ambulatory or sentient houses. Maybe that’s why I keep picking up Howl’s Moving Castle for another read....

TL;DR: History--but with dragons! (But seriously, the review is less than 500 words, surely you can manage the time to read it?) Captain...

Jayber Crow is the story of a barber in the town of Port William who falls in love with another man’s wife. …Doesn’t that sound awful?...

C.S. Lewis used to read The Man Born to be King yearly during the Lenten season to prepare his mind for Easter. If I had been likewise...

Confession: I’m not a huge fan of the romance novel genre. I like Jane Austen, and Charlotte Bronte and that’s about it. I enjoy romance...

Does this sound familiar? A child with horrible prophecies hanging over his head attends a magical school, collects two close friends,...