Are you waiting to get your hands on the third and newest Stieg Larsson mystery? Or maybe you have just heard about this latest bestselling Swedish mystery writer and you are on the hold list for his first book in the series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? While you wait, how about trying some [...]
Today is the first day of spring. Well, maybe. It’s also snowing today. Yesterday was warm and beautiful. I went to the Art Institute in Chicago to see the new exhibit, “”Matisse: Radical Intervention, 1913-1917.” It was such a nice day to be walking around! The exhibit examines a little-studied time in the artist’s career [...]
Yesterday I told you about a blogger at the Guardian who went cold turkey and didn’t read a book for a week. Today I came across an invitation from a New Yorker magazine blog: “Lie back, relax, let the good doctors at the Book Bench analyze the contents of your bookshelf.” Want your bookshelf analyzed? Email them [...]
As I have time, I try to catch some book blogs from across the country and from other countries. It’s like wandering through a part of the library you’ve never been to and discovering a new author or subject! One of the blogs I check out is the book section of the UK’s Guardian newspaper. [...]
I love pins. I don’t wear much jewelry, but I am attracted to pins. When I saw an interview of Madeleine Albright talking about her collection of pins, I could hardly wait to get my hands on her new book, Read My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat’s Jewel Box. The book is an easy, quick, informative and [...]