I'm trying, I'm trying so hard to keep on track with my reading, but I'm falling further and further (farther and farther?) behi...

Here's a little description for you: In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives...

I sure wish I'd known about The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter during the last Cannonball Read 5K, when I was supposed to read book set...

My guess is, a lot of you haven't read The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, so here's the book jacket synopsis: "It is 1875, and A...

I'd only read Water for Elephants once before, so I read it again! Hooray for the re-read. Water for Elephants is a circus story. You ...

The Lightning Thief is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series (am I the only one that thinks Percy Jackson and the Oly...

I am falling further and further behind in my quest to read one hundred books this year, particularly since I had two three-hour flights thi...

I had never heard of Mount Misery by Samuel Shem, but EJack was giving it away in his moving "sale," and who am I to turn down a f...

Remember the Jungle Book? Remember the story of Mowgli, the lost baby who is raised by wolves and a host of other creatures who live in the...

Hey, Michelle Duggar? Sweetie, I think it's time for you to take a little break. I worry for you. 18 kids, and you're having another...

"Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive and ambitious father. As the former M...

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser exposes the deep, dark truth about the fast food industry, from its humble beginnings in California to th...

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer... defies description. How's that for a reviewer's copout? Seriously, EII is li...

Several people asked me if I was going to write a recap of my experience walking in the Breast Cancer 3-Day. I've been putting it off, ...

It seems like FOREVER since Project Runway has been on TV. And maybe it has been a really long time. With the legal battle between Bravo and...

Book 55 in my Cannonball Read challenge is Devil May Care by Sheri McInnis. Quick description: down-on-her-luck actress Sally meets a netwo...

Here's your overview: "In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is pai...

The Widows' Adventures by Charles Dickinson (yes, that's his real name) is one of the best books you've never heard of. Here...

David Sedaris is pretty much a genius. I didn't like this as much as liked Me Talk Pretty One Day, but I loved Me Talk Pretty One Day ...

Welcome to August. I am currently six books behind my goal - should have finished 58 by July 31, only finished 52. Please note that books...