Writing book reviews for books I read in June when it’s only September? I am gaining on myself. Wonderful. But it looks like I’ll be breaking June into at least two installments because the list is too long for one blog post. Let’s dive in. I have considered becoming an L. M. Montgomery expert. To…
Is there a hotter book than James by Percival Everett? Sure, the popularity is waning by now, but there’s still no paperback, and we still keep it on the front table in a tall stack at the bookshop because even a year later, James is selling. It’s being read. People are loving it. And the…
I was going to wait until the beginning of 2025 to post about the supposed best books of 2024, but it seems that by then I will have missed some sort of train. So here we go. Hugs to all those books yet to emerge as a favorite, in the next four weeks or so.…
I have seen five movies in the past couple months which are related to books in one way or another. Since the Oscars are creeping up on us and two of the movies have Oscar noms, I thought I should go ahead and put my two cents out there for you. The first—and arguably most…
