Category Archives: Reading

Neil Gaiman’s name also came up at work recently, but not in a good way. We’re no longer allowed to reference him in our publications. Having read about the accusations against him, I not only approve that decision, but I’m … Continue reading →

I finished my second book for the year, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. In this mystery set in England, four senior citizens living in a retirement village investigate a series of local murders. I would tell you more … Continue reading →

I finished my first book of 2025 last month. It was The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake. I started it last year, so clearly my reading pace has not returned anywhere near normal yet. 🙁 In this dark academia novel, … Continue reading →

Reading in 2024 didn’t go so well. I was reading slowly from the get-go but miraculously managed to stay close to my reading goals through the first half of the year. Then things fell apart and I just . . … Continue reading →

I was having the damnedest time finding a book to suit my mood, so my husband offered me three of his own books to read. They all sounded appealing, but the one I chose to read first was Black Sun … Continue reading →

I read a few Nancy Drew books earlier this year. One was The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk (#17). I bought it at an antique store in Vermont for $3. It’s not a perfect copy. The cover’s a little stained, … Continue reading →

My reading pace has been slow, but I finished four books recently. Two of them (Tom’s Midnight Garden and A Bear Called Paddington) are on the BBC’s Top 100 Children’s Books list, bringing my total for that list to 52/100. … Continue reading →

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse is the story of Billie Jo, a girl growing up on a farm in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl years of the mid-1930s. When a terrible household accident kills her mother and scars … Continue reading →