LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

Mr. President, Members of Congress, members of the press, and fellow bloggers--- There's a way to save millions of dollars on health car...

Liberal means favoring freedom. In 17th and early 18th-century Europe, liberals brought down the Ancien Régime—a totalitarian alliance of c...

Knowing of my fascination with medieval sleuths , a friend recommended the Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna Gregory . I began w...

I've been looking at Publishers Weekly 's list of bestselling books 2008 (which they inexplicably title "Bestselling Books 200...

Over the last 15 months I've reviewed or commented on some 40 books on this blog. Here's the nonfiction list--with links to my revie...

Over the last 15 months I've reviewed or commented on some 40 books on this blog. Here's the fiction list--with links to my reviews-...

As a former French teacher who lives with an elegant little terrier named Mrs Tiggy-Winkle , how could I not like Muriel Barbery's The E...