Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

So why did I give Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane , by Devoney Looser, five stars? I already knew Austen to be a...

It seems everyone was reading The Correspondent , by Virginia Evans, last year, and with good reason. I thoroughly enjoyed this epistolary n...

 Two more Scottish-based books under my belt.  The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain , by Allan Massie - a solid th...

Spring has come early to Colorado--the daffodils are just about done, as are the apple trees (both ornamental and fruiting), and the lilacs ...

Ten years ago or so, my husband and I went to Kearney, Nebraska for the spring migration of Sandhill Cranes. Every year since then, we have ...

Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other - written and read by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, Charlotte Reather...

God of the Wood s, by Liz Moore - I saw this book on so many blogs last year, and since I loved the premise, I fell for the hype. So glad I ...

In searching for books about and set in Scotland, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark, was on virtually every list I encountered ...

I've been reading the Brontës for almost my entire life. When I was a young teenager and ready to move from the children's section o...

Happy February!  The Super Bowl was fun, and we enjoyed seeing the Seahawks beat the Patriots since the latter kept the Broncos out of the b...