Days at Buttermilk Cottage

GONE GIRL is the red hot book right now  and has been for several weeks. It is  Number One on the Indie Bestseller List this wee...

WILD by Cheryl Strayed will impress you with it's honesty. This is  the memoir of Strayed,  who at the age of twenty six, is ...

 Just today I finished THE HYPNOTIST by Lars Kepler. Normally I'm not a crime fiction reader, but this was on a book list and ...

If I were an eloquent writer, whose thoughts were focused, clear and sharp, this is the book I would like to have written. Puli...

GARLIC & SAPPHIRES by Ruth Reichl is not a new title. It was published in 2005. (I find I'm having a hard time lately ...

BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC by Julie Otsuka is not a novel in the traditional sense. It is written in such an elegant, sparse style of prose, this ...

I have just finished ONE DAY by David Nicholls. It seemed to take me for...ev...er...to get through this book. Normally, this is the type b...

If this book doesn't become a movie, Ivory and Merchant have missed an opportunity. Amor Towles', THE RULES OF CIVILITY is a stylis...

I have a most excellent read to recommend to you-- DREAM OF JOY by Lisa See. This is a sequel to See's earlier book, SHANGHAI GIRLS. So...

What a storyteller Louise Erdrich is! Her book, THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB is a beautifully written book, full of quirky characters, ...

I have always admired Ernest Hemingway's work. I love his "to the point, no excess baggage" style of prose. I remember a coll...

I've completed the final two novels of THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy by Suzanne Collins. (I talked about the first book earlier, here .) C...

IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS by Erik Larson is a non-fiction that reads like a thriller. One of the author's aim in writing the book was to ...

Animal fables Humor Short stories Satiric Dark Insightful Adult Small book Good weekend read. Have a good one! 

It seems like ages since I've blogged-- written a post or read any. Sometimes, life just gets in the way! I have done a little reading t...