Pygmy Goats at the Fair

August 27, 2015

I haven’t had time to finish a book in the last couple days, but I have spent time with some favorite animals. My niece is showing her Pygmy goats at the fair this week, so I’m cheering her on. Tomorrow, come back for the book winners and the next...

Voracious by Cara Nicoletti

August 26, 2015

Isn’t it fascinating to discover what one reader gets out of a book when another misses it totally? I’ve read a number of the same books as author Cara Nicoletti has, but I never concentrated on the food in the books. She’s a butcher, a former pastry...

Penguin’s September Mysteries from Berkley Prime Crime & Obsidian

August 25, 2015

Lots of Jinx today for those of you who only watch the videos for cat appearances (smile) For the rest of you, here are the September cozy releases from Penguin’s Berkley Prime Crime and Obsidian. The Marsh Madness – Victoria Abbott (4th Book Collector...

The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

August 24, 2015

Every year it becomes harder to summarize Louise Penny’s exceptional books. While How the Light Gets In may have represented a culmination of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache’s fight against good and evil, even in retirement in Three Pines, he continues to...

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

August 23, 2015

If you follow my blog regularly, you know I read for entertainment, no matter what I’m reading. But, I picked up Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me because it appeared on a bookstore’s list for the subject “Black Lives...