Family Read-Alouds This month's lunchtime read-aloud (read by me) has been Inside the Ark by Caryll Houselander. This is a collection...

Jiro, the son of peasant Hanji the puppetmaker and his wife, Isako, whose other children all died of the plague, is starving to death in f...

Friday's Tunnel is a children's novel originally published by English writer John Verney in 1959, which has been reissued by Paul...

This week's Top Ten Tuesday theme is favorite books released in the last ten years. Up until recently, I've been reading more child...

I really loved this week's set of chapters: Chapter 20 ("The First Task"), Chapter 21 ("The House-Elf Liberation Front...

Over the weekend, I read my next installment in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire : Chapter 17 ("The Four Champions"), Chapter...

Top Ten Tuesday's theme for this week is Books That I Refuse to Let Anyone Touch. I'm a big believer in Ranganathan's First Law...