LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

The 10th installment of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series has finally arrived this side of the pond (U.S. version at the left; the Br...

Here's another novel that crawls into the mind of someone whose life is quickly receding (for mention of two others, see this post ). Li...

Yesterday the FDA approved Plan B —the morning-after pill—for over-the-counter sales to 17-year-olds (though not until certain labeling chan...

Two paragraphs I liked from Marilynne Robinson's Home. Different approaches from mother and father: How to announce the return of comfo...

I confess: I did not especially enjoy Gilead , Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 novel about the Ames and Boughton famili...

Years ago I started keeping a list of every book I read, because when people ask me what I've been reading, I can never remember. Now I ...

I have now listened to 12 of Patricia D. Cornwell 's 16 Scarpetta mysteries. Though my two worst high-school classes were home ec and dr...