Possible spoilers! Dead Until Dark is the first in the series of Sookie Stackhouse novels, the basis for the HBO series True Blood. Since I...

To all my friends and loved ones: You know you've been impressed with all the reading that I've been doing this year. You should be ...

Thank goodness for the Cannonball Read. I am reading all sorts of books that I've seen for years and have thought, "Oh, I really sh...

Wendy Wasserstein wrote one of my favorite plays, The Heidi Chronicles; I didn't know she had written this novel, Elements of Style, but...

Here's the back-of-the-book description for The Bridesmaid by Hailey Abbott: "After years of watching couples come to blows over ic...

My dad recommended Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell to me. Not only that, he sent it to me. I was skeptical. My dad's tastes run more t...

Short back-of-the-book description for Stiff: " Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our ...

Did I tell you I joined a book club? I did. Aside from the social aspects of being in a group of women, drinking booze and eating party sn...

I found this synopsis at Books On Board : "Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, disappeared 40 ye...

Here's the book-jacket synopsis for A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer: "Daniel Emerson lives with Kate Ellis and is like a fath...

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...