It's easy to get wrapped up in the hype of Christmas season shopping. These books help inspire the reader to not give in to the...

by A.S. Byatt After reading Possession by A.S. Byatt, I was looking forward to another masterpiece when I came across her lesser known...

Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and The Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates. I...

I'm going to let you in on a secret: you're awesome just the way you are. I read your journal today, and first of all, please work on...

The common view that birds are "bird-brained" or rather, stupid, has finally flown the coop. In Jennifer Ackerman's book, The Genius of...

With a baby almost here, I need to be realistic with how much I'm going to be reading this year. With now less than a month away from our...

By Train Through the Americas I came across The Old Patagonian Express while perusing the book shelves of the Cottage Book Shop in Glen...

I can’t remember the first time I gardened—digging my hands into dirt, pulling weeds, sun warming my back—for joy. I can’t say when I...

A Scottish Icon. It was the first morning in Glen Coe, and we woke up to the sight of grey skies, a calm lake, and the peaks of the...

Andrew and I leave the city of Edinburgh and head west. It was the morning of our third day in Scotland, and we woke up at 9:50 in our...

A Summary of the first two days we spent in Scotland, in one of the most beautiful and enchanting cities in the world. Andrew and I...

My first review of a video game...here we go. A Little Background: I grew up playing video games, but I am in no way considered a gamer....

Andrew and I just finished Lethal White, the fourth installment of the Cormoran Strike series, and J.K. Rowling once again knocks it out...

Based on the final seventy days of Vincent Van Gogh's life, The Last Van Gogh by Alyson Richman is told through the perspective of the...

The House of Special Purpose is titled after the ill-fated house in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where the last Tsar of Russia and his family...

Audio-books and road trips go together like tea and honey, chocolate syrup and vanilla ice cream, or fuzzy socks and---you get the...

Baxter C. (Fleming) Johnson died on a Tuesday in 1931. It was May, and it was the sort of death that came like a visiting friend—Baxter,...

Possession is a literary masterpiece. It is a fast-paced mystery that captures the secret affair of two Victorian-age poets through the...

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling will forever be my favorite book series/reading experience I'll ever have. Ever. But that's...

Need some ideas for you and your book-loving beau? Here's a list to try when you find some time to spend an afternoon or evening...