Worthwhile Books

Herbert Pinnegar was born in the 1860s. He was an orphan with a lame leg and didn’t seem to have any prospect for a happy future. But with a...

Is it possible to write a rave review about a book that I hestitate to recommend? Frankly, I struggled to like and finish Roger Scruton'...

In spite of the fact that my brain was in a fog (teaching overload) for almost six months this year, I managed to squeeze in quite a few rea...

Surfeit of Lampreys is the tenth entry in the Roderick Alleyn detective stories . It opens with antics of the Lamprey family who always see...

This will be my last nostalgic post this year because my teaching schedule is lightening up, and soon I'll have the head space for readi...

My last post was on the literary riches of 2011, but the next year was no different. In truth, because I read a book per week (sometimes two...

Well, 2011 brought quite a revolution to my reading life when my husband gave me a Kindle! I was not interested at first. (Some of my regula...