I don’t remember where I heard that Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons” was a good book or how it got on my list. For about...

A friend and I recently attended Bilbo Baggins’ 111th birthday party. That’s right. The Party of Special Magnificence itself! We didn’t...

Somebody else has written a book about a sentient house! I tend to enjoy sentient houses; it’s the side effects of being both a...

I have a strange fondness for ambulatory or sentient houses. Maybe that’s why I keep picking up Howl’s Moving Castle for another read....

TL;DR: History--but with dragons! (But seriously, the review is less than 500 words, surely you can manage the time to read it?) Captain...

Jayber Crow is the story of a barber in the town of Port William who falls in love with another man’s wife. …Doesn’t that sound awful?...

C.S. Lewis used to read The Man Born to be King yearly during the Lenten season to prepare his mind for Easter. If I had been likewise...

Confession: I’m not a huge fan of the romance novel genre. I like Jane Austen, and Charlotte Bronte and that’s about it. I enjoy romance...

Does this sound familiar? A child with horrible prophecies hanging over his head attends a magical school, collects two close friends,...

This is the first and only Sci-Fi Victorian Romance I have ever read. I doubt I will ever have the chance to read another; I’d say it’s a...

Puritans are the universal unpopular characters. Nazis are still the go-to for stereotypical depictions of true evil, but with the word...

I just finished a book titled “Amongst Our Weapons.” And yes, that is a reference to Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition. It’s book 9 of...

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss There is probably not a student of history...