I picked up a book by an author we've covered before here. My Brother Michael is another of Stewart's romantic mysteries. This time, the heroine visits Greece, and finds herself involved with . . . Here's where I have to give you some homework. Why don't you read it and tell me whether it's any good? It being a mystery and all, [...]
Roast chicken photo by joerandazzo.com on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-ND I can't believe this Tex Mex Chopped Chicken Salad got away from me before I snapped a picture. Somebody called a party for a snowy night. "Bring soup, salad or bread," they said. I'd been dying to try this one. I threw it together. We ran out [...]
Ann Patchett is getting to be a favorite author around here. Commonwealth, her latest, opens at an alcohol-fueled christening party. Imagine yourself, a cop, father of the new baby, opening the door to find a colleague ready to step across your threshold, uninvited. And by the time the party’s over, he and your wife are in love. Commonwealth wastes little time on the spark that [...]
We’ve all harbored at least one impossible dream. Mine was to perform magic like Samantha from Bewitched. I’ve got a few others, too. But, based on how my prayers about twitching my nose got answered, I don’t hold out a lot of hope for the rest of my list. In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, a black girl in an Ohio town wishes for blue eyes. [...]
It’s too bad they were fighting a war in Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War, because all the hills and valleys Helprin wrote about make me want to call a travel agent, […]
