Read the Best Books First

Reading Ghosted this year seems like a serendipitous work of kismet. I randomly plucked this cutie hot pink spine sporting that iconic littl...

Hey, hey: time for another presidential biography and we're on unlucky #13, Millard Fillmore.  Unlucky, you say? Yes. Yes, I do becaus...

I read Cold Sassy Tree back in May, but it is still easily my favorite book of 2023 so far and let me ask you something: why is it so hard ...

Moving right along in my quest to discover the delights of Roald Dahl as an adult (since my only exposure to his work in childhood was watc...

September 1st? Already? Hardly seems possible. We only have four reading months left in 2023, and I decided that today would be a good day t...

Cue the fanfare. With today's post, we have officially cleared 2022 out of the To Be Blogged stack. Life is good. (All right, fine , i...

Welcome one and all to the third week of August in the Year of Our Lord 2023 which will otherwise be known on this blog as "The Week We...