Staircase Wit
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Frequently Recommend
And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle
Two Recent Crime Novels
The Golden Collar by Elizabeth Cadell
The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring
Top Ten Tuesday: Books for Armchair Travelers
Tapestry by Fiona McIntosh
WWW Wednesday – February 11
Six Degrees of Separation – from Flashlight to The Phoenix and the Carpet
Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham
January 2026 Reading
The Snow Lies Deep by Paula Munier
The Tall Stranger by D.E. Stevenson
Historical Fiction in 2026 and a 2025 Recap
Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron
Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent - my first five-star review of 2026
Bloody Instructions by Sara Woods
Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Reads of 2025
Six Degrees of Separation – from The Horse and His Boy to Ten Little Indians
December 2025 Reading
The Star and the Shamrock by Jean Grainger - a final WWII novel for the year
The Night of Fear by Moray Dalton, for Dean Street December
Spell the Month in Books - December - and Merry Christmas!
Christmas with the Queen by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp, for Dean Street December
My Life in Books - 2025
Boston Public Library reveals its top 10 checked out books of 2025 list
Overdue by Stephanie Perkins
November 2025 Reading
Six Degrees of Separation - from Seascraper to The Horse and His Boy
WWW Wednesday - December 3
Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett, for Dean Street December
The Jazz Barn by John Gennari - book review for Nonfiction November
Top Ten Tuesday: Memorable Author Events
Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon & Harlan Coben
Searching for Shona by Margaret J. Anderson, a WWII evacuation story
October 2025 Reading
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Lisa Scottoline and Final Appeal in Boston
WWW Wednesday - Guy Fawkes Day
The Librarians - a mystery by Sherry Thomas
Six Degrees of Separation – from We Have Always Lived in the Castle to Summer of Fear
The House at Mermaid's Cove by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Ode to My Two Torn Blouses
September 2025 Reading
The School at the Chalet by Elinor Brent-Dyer, for the 1925 Club
Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery, for the #1925Club
The Dower House by Patricia Wentworth, for the #1925Club
Greenery Street by Dennis Mackail, for the #1925Club
Betsy-Tacy Convention 2025, Part 3
Betsy-Tacy Convention 2025, Part 2
Betsy-Tacy Convention 2025
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
Top Ten Tuesday: Satisfying Book Series
Six Degrees of Separation – from I Want Everything to Camino Island
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure by Rhys Bowen
Two 2025 Novels
August 2025 Reading
The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths
At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie #ReadChristie2025
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett
A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith
Six Degrees of Separation – from Ghost Cities to Fortune’s Folly
The Steam Whistle Theatre Company by Vivian French – 15/20 Books of Summer
Niccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett – 14/20 Books of Summer
July 2025 Reading
Dear Miss Lake by AJ Pearce: a WWII story
Nightshade by Michael Connelly
WWW Wednesday - August 13
Spell the Month in Books - August
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie #ReadChristie2025
The Active-Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch by E.W. Hildick – 13/20 Books of Summer
The Black Honeymoon by Constance and Gwenyth Little - 12/20 Books of Summer
Six Degrees of Separation― from The Safekeep to The Woman in the Library
Strangers in Time by David Baldacci - a WWII Novel
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods - Paris in July
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan – a WWII historical novel from my 20 Books of Summer
Cher: The Memoir, Part One