A tale of three cities

No, I'm not American but yes, I love all types of celebrations -- they always provide the right setting for a gathering, for meeting o...

Again, a book that I would probably never have read were it not for my book club:   Americanah , a present-day story about growing up wi...

I got "The Return" by V. Hislop as a summer present. At 500 pages, I was slightly intimidated whether I would be able to finis...

no meat in sight... (In lieu of an introduction : There are plenty of documentaries on TV showing the risk  to the food supply i f we ...

Yep, I have to drag myself back into the art of reading and writing about it -- plus, I've wanted to read Moby Dick for a very long ti...

I'm always amazed at how some of the themes currently at the height of interest were also touched upon by classic books. Case in que...