The Book Den

The next Vital Signs Book Brunch will be at our home on Saturday morning, September 21 from 10 until noon. And the book under discussion wil...

We have a dramatic reading challenge to offer our bookish friends this summer. And I mean dramatic in its literal sense. For among the novel...

The purposes for these book lists are to provide for myself accountability and motivation, to provide for my bookish friends a spur to their...

The Yuletide may be behind us but reading The Christmas Room is always in season. Just yesterday a request came in for us to send out a cou...

It was an excellent year “between the covers.” Book covers, that is. My total number of books ended up at 71 with several sizable challenges...

4 Star Christmas Reading (And a Few Honorable Mentions) With no time in this hectic (but happy) holiday season to give individual reviews, I...

Judy Garland’s singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” in the 1944 film “Meet Me in St. Louis” made the song a Christmas standard. ...

"If" by Rudyard Kipling (c1895) If you can keep your head when all about you       Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If ...

As I mentioned in a recent Book Den post (October 31), I finished a most enlightening and relevant book entitled 10 Books that Screwed Up th...

I finished my latest Charles Dickens novel last night -- a rereading of one of his longest and, in other ways too, an especially challenging...