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For some reason,  The Invisible Life of Addie Larue  has made me realize something about myself, and my reading choices.  I've read seve...

I have read a few Mark Helprin books before, mostly because Mom gave them to me.  I don't know that I would have gravitated to him indep...

S and I took a trip to Ireland a couple of Christmases ago, where I learned an intriguing little bit about Grace O'Malley , a clan leade...

Another recommendation from K while we were wandering Wonderland Books was  London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Famil...

The most recent installment of my 2026 Reading Challenge was  The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life , by Anu Partanen...

My latest "available now" audiobook selection was  The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald . It is, as it...

K's latest choice for our postal book club read is  Shark Heart , by Emily Habeck.   What I know so far is that Wren and Lewis are one ...

When K and I were in the DC area recently, we popped into Wonderland Books in Bethesda on a rainy morning.  K, who is a teacher and so perh...

After some semi-existential frustrations in the last couple of years (mostly career-related), I've begun reading a bit about Stoic philo...

As is tradition, I picked a book to read when we headed out west last month.  We were going to be in and out of Jackson, so I selected  We D...