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...

Nobody ever complained about the Thompson’s lawn. The HOA did not come after them for putting garish cement ornaments all over the place,...

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...

Angie Brown: ISO elder care helper. I tried to get one through CareLink but they was terrible.. My uncle just wants someone to talk to....

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 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...

First of all, you should know that a haunted house can’t choose to be a haunted house. A house has to reflect the character of the people...

Chrysalises weren’t supposed to change quite like that, Betsey thought, staring up at the delicate green pouch hanging off the branches...

On Thursday Rob Smith found out he was a superhero. Whoopee. How fantastic. I suppose you’re already judging me for not being excited,...

Have you ever tried to change a teleporting baby's diaper? She’d vanish as soon as I got the special transportation-blocking diaper...

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...

Not being a huge fan of the ocean, my mermaids are never of the singing, starry-eyed fork-collecting type.... “By the late Tidal Era, two...

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

When she walked down Main Street, no matter who she was with, she looked for three things: the horses tied up at the mercantile to see...

My mother used to cut my sister’s hair in the garden so she could be seen through the neighbor’s window. Our neighbor was a fairy. “If a...

My daughter drew an interesting and strange creature a few weeks ago, and I started asking her questions about it, trying to draw a story...

I just finished a book titled “Amongst Our Weapons.” And yes, that is a reference to Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition. It’s book 9 of...