Book Blog

Local History Vacation Choices When you can immerse yourself while on vacation, in another world, another time, another place, you truly get away. If while you are there, you find a book that captures part of that otherness, more...

I received a present, Wellspring, the last Janice Holt Giles book published in 1979, a collection of thoughts, fiction, and memoirs. How I missed this one, I don’t know, partly because I discovered the author in 1965 and she...

Theodor Seuss Geisel would have been 100 years old this past weekend. He was a prolific writer, more than sixty books. I have ten. Sixty is impressive by anyone’s count. I don’t love him, I don’t hate him, I...

A friend asked what I was reading and what would I recommend. I don’t do that much. Everyone’s taste is so different and mine had never matched someone else’s. She was persistant, so here is a list of the...

Old Turtle, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Little Prince Philosophers for Kids Bonnie and Jack, Mele and Malakai, Erin and baby Grace, you all make me think of books to have at home for the kids and for you....

A baby shower is coming up and I had to decide, read the online options from Target, Babies R Us and Amazon or … go buy a favorite book. Surprise, surprise, I bought a book. It was a toss up...

The Gringo: A Memoir Hans Christian Anderson wrote a short story about an Emperor who ordered a set of clothing from some weavers/swindlers who outfitted him in nothing and those same men convinced the general populace that those who...

When The Seven Daughters of Eve by Brian Sykes was published, I read an excerpt that made me want to read it. The queue to read it was crazy, months long. When it finally got off the reserve hold list,...

Here along the Front Range we had a hard summer, the man against nature theme was unrelenting in June, with fires burning in and out of control. In Aurora in July, 58 people were wounded and 12 murdered by...

You know you were from Basking Ridge if you spent the Fourth of July at Somerset Hills Golf Course watching the fireworks and Labor Day at the Kiwanis Fair walking around for hours behind Oak Street. Summer brings out book sales...