Amor Towles wrote Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow – two of my favorite books from last year. When I learned that he […] Read More
For the last several years, my book club has followed the same procedure for selecting its books for a whole year. Last year, when our […] Read More
A few years back, my book club put together its collective Top 100 Books. I remember in that exercise, that I had a hard time […] Read More
Southern Living calls this the best carrot cake of all time, and I can’t disagree. I made this carrot cake recipe a long time ago, […] Read More
I bought The Fact of a Body after hearing about it on the Literary Disco podcast*. My plan had been to give it my dad […] Read More
It seems everyone wants to be in a book club. And I get it – they are fun. They also don’t run themselves, which is […] Read More
The Ragamuffin Gospel changed the way I think of God’s love. For someone who has been a Christian as long as I have, and for […] Read More
Six years ago, I wrote about a card game that my husband and I learned from our neighbors that very much became an addiction for […] Read More
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community is the last book Martin Luther King, Jr. penned before his assassination in 1968. It’s a series of […] Read More
Since creating this list, I have come to learn that I neglected a significant number of years from 1918 – 1947 – and hence books […] Read More