The Surly Bookseller

Reading has been slow going for me this past week, for two reasons. First, interruptions to my routine have been numerous, and my usual ti...

Let me save you some time .   Rachel's father is a babe magnet. Her mother is a stick figure of a character. Rachel is late t...

Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. He...

After my father and most of his friends retired from their important careers 15 years or so ago, they found themselves interested in The Soa...

When I was in college and had to read Samuel Richardson's Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded , it put me off epistolary...

Every Tuesday, unless I forget or have something better to do, I post a review I originally posted on Goodreads in the near and not so near ...

Several years ago I worked in a volunteer capacity with incarcerated women, and got to know more than a few whose crime was murder. Most of ...