The chill of finishing a great mystery is in my bones. And it’s a very good thing Kipling can’t get to them with her tiny puppy-teeth! Kiplings’s first snow experience…traversing the...
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Okay, I’ll stop with these two happy Kipling photos and carry on with my recommendation I searched for the anthology The Best American Short Stories 2011, a series that comes out each Fall with...
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It’s raining cats and dogs outside my office window. Kipling is at my feet, and already a great snoozer. I wanted to send out the weekend Kipling Report before I continue working on...
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Lobo regarded me, and I him. I gathered him into my arms and clutched him to my chest, instinctively cradling him. It was then that I experienced the only episode of love at...
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Here is a new list of five authors to discover, and two to grow on! The evening mist is back over the pond. The air is colder. Fall into Winter waterborne storms are...
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Beryl holds an ice cube in her hand as she sits in her closet. This is the first line of Audrey Schulman’s 1994 novel The Cage. Her main character is trying to imagine...
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Okay, I resisted going to the new Woody Allen movie. A lot of you did the same. Every weekend I need to be convinced to go to the movies. This wooing has to be...
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This week I decided to reread a couple older books along with my pop culture book pick of the moment, Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern. This page-turner, a meditative glimpse of a suburban...
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So, one of the most influential writers of the 1960s passed away early this month at the age of 77, and I remember Theodore Roszak for more than his most famous book....
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Zippy is out with the robin redbreasts as the cherry and pear trees bloom – I swear he’s looking at one right now Jo Nesbø’s The Redbreast So much reading and so little...
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