I guess I shouldn’t say that EVERYBODY’S mother would like Agatha Christie books. Surely there must be literally DOZENS who wouldn’t.
What’s good about Agatha Christie mysteries is that they’re clever and satisfying without (usually) getting too gory or too scary. I myself prefer a good Jeffery Deaver (Twisted is great, or my favorite […]

I’ve been reading Rob Rummel-Hudson’s blog for years, and I’m kind of embarrassed it’s taken me this long to order my copy of his book. I’d play the ‘but I’ve had no time for reading‘ card except really, there’s no excuse — as soon as it arrived from Amazon I devoured the whole thing in […]

Do you have a Borders bookstore near you? If you don’t, I don’t know how you’re going to find this, because I have looked everywhere. I searched by ISBN number, I searched for it on the Borders website, I searched for it on the publisher’s website. No luck. The only place […]

Have you pretty much cleared your calendar for today so that you can sit around waiting for Linda to announce her new baby’s name? OMG ME TOO.
I’m feeding my agitation by re-reading my favorite baby name book of all time: The Baby Name Wizard, by Laura Wattenberg. It was published in 2005, […]

This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury is my favorite Christmas book. I re-read it every year. It’s hard to find that good balance between gaggy “Miracle of Christmas Love” and hard bitter “dead bum in the Christmas mud” cynicism, and Maeve Binchy finds it. These are the kind […]