

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt After many false starts, I finally was able to make it more than 20 pages through this book. My love of art...


Small Business Saturday
Any lover of Stars Hollow should appreciate just how important it is to support local businesses. And to combat the insanity of Black...


The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean I'm such a sucker for weird medical shit, so this was right up my alley. In addition...


Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Yes Please by Amy Poehler On the BookRiot podcast, Rebecca Schinsky was recently singing the praises of this book so much, even though...


morning coffee at luke's | Candide Indeed!
November 21, 2014 Happy Birthday, Voltaire! To celebrate, I'm going to share some great quotes from the birthday boy... "Every man is...


morning coffee at luke's | Important Day in Mayo History
November 20, 2014 On this day in 1934, Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour opened at Maxine Elliott's Theater on Broadway. Set in an...


morning coffee at luke's | That's the dream
November 17, 2014 Listening to BookRiot's "Reading Lives" podcast yesterday, I was struck by something essayist Ashley Ford said about a...


morning coffee at luke's | We've got us a Pippi virgin!
November 14, 2014 Happy Birthday, Astrid Lindgren! If the author of Pippi Longstocking was alive today, she'd be celebrating her 107th...


Where they lead, I will follow
The ATX Festival announced today that they are hosting a panel reuniting Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel and Amy Sherman-Palladino in...


morning coffee at luke's | Birthday Treasure
November 13, 2014 Happy Birthday, Robert Louis Stevenson! Did you know? The Royal Bank of Scotland issued a £1 banknote featuring...