

morning coffee at luke's | Take the gun, leave the cannoli
October 15, 2014 Happy birthday to Mario Puzo! Bear Allen tidbit: I've never seen The Godfather but have read the book, along with most...


Top Ten Tuesday
One of my favorite blogs on the Bookternet, The Broke and The Bookish, hosts a weekly link-up every Tuesday with various topics where...


morning coffee at luke's | October 14, 2014
October 14, 2014 Happy birthday to e.e. cummings! i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees ...


Yellow House Books and book sale fun!
This weekend, I was at a small reunion with my mother-in-law's family at Jiminy Peak. Let's just say that Husband should really start...


Provenance by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
Provenance by Laney Salisbury and Ali Sujo As my parents fancy themselves art collectors (they're not), I've heard way too much about the...


HOOOO-AH!
Hopefully that subject gave you some Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell flashbacks. Because I'm here to tell you that, not only did I start...


Going to Kansas City... Kansas City here I come!
Or really that should be "Went to Kansas City... Kansas City here I came". But that's less catchy. Two weeks ago, I was forced to break...
Gone Girl... the movie
A few years ago, my very first download from Audible was Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It was the type of book that had me screaming in my...


The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee accomplished something really difficult in The Emperor of All Maladies. He gave his readers super technical and...


The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Everyone loves a good fairy tale, but authors tend to only share fairy tales with the very young. Adults are, not unsurprisingly,...