Sassafras Mama

This little gem of a book, by Nina George, was a library find.   Any title that invokes books and villages is likely to tempt me and so this...

We’ve reached that point of the school year when I work round the clock, seven days a week.   My last few weekends have been jammed with a t...

  Maggie Smith is a poet and writer whom I found via the Internet, I think via Instagram but maybe Twitter, back in the before Elon days.   ...

The arrival of June moves my reading habit into its highest gear and all Summer long, I consume books with a greater ferocity than usual.   ...

When I was truly able to settle into Winter Break, I pulled out three holiday books to read.   Two of them, the books by Miss Read and Alice...

I first discovered Miss Read books in 2006, a very hard year in my life.   I saw a description of two Miss Read books in the Bas Bleu book c...

Florida is the first Lauren Groff book I have read.   It won’t be the last.   The book is a collection of short stories linked together by,...

One of the nice things about being me is that I always have a steady supply of books to read.   On my desk are two generous stacks of new b...

I’ve been a fan of D.E. Stevenson books for the last few years.   Stevenson was Scottish and wrote in the mid-20th century.   She ...

Yesterday afternoon, I curled up on the sofa with my current book.   I’m nearly done reading it so, as is my habit, I had two others ne...

On Instagram, I follow a handful of book readers, among them a group calling itself #missreadalong.   It’s a group that loves Miss Read...

Back in June, to start my Summer, I read Varina by Charles Frazier.   I enjoyed the book a great deal and, as I finished the last...

I start every summer with a pile of books to be read.   For the most part, I make steady progress through that pile, pick...

I picked up Washington Black by Esu Edugyan as part of an assortment to be discussed at monthly faculty book club meetings at my ...

I read Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko earlier this year and found it brilliant.   I picked up her earlier debut novel, Free Food for Millionai...

I am a voracious reader and summer is when I come into my own, with time enough to read at least five or six books a month.   All year ...

My affection for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books is unbounded and enduring.   There were the first real books I read...

The arrival of the holiday season and some much-welcomed time off   brought me some extra time to read, a welcome way to close my year....

I’ve written before about how much I love Miss Read’s books.   Over the years, both the Thrush Green and Fair Acre series have...

When I finally picked up Colson Whitehead’s book, it came with some pretty serious expectations on my part.   I haven’t read all o...