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Jed came over on Wednesday, and we went to TKC Thursday to see the vascular doctor, Dr. Patterson, who said he will get with Dr. Stein an...

A black man accused of murdering two girls on Shades Mountain, a rich suburb of Birmingham, Alabama in the 1930's,  keeps insist...

This is our book club selection for August, so I'll wait until after the August meeting to post any remarks about it.

The author and his girlfriend buy and move into an old house in the Mississippi delta. They have funny and sad experiences in the ...

"Last night, while I lay thinking here, Some Whatifs crawled into my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their sam...

This novel was first published in 1969. I thought I had read it many years ago, but I was mistaken. The book is in three parts, the first ...

My sweet Sister Susie gave me this book for my birthday. It is extremely well-written, easy to read. I enjoyed it very much. The First Lad...

What a wonderful book!  I have admired and remembered Delia Owens for many years, since I read The Cry of the Kalahari , which she and her...

T.K. Thorne is a former police captain in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. She is also a fine novelist who has received awards and honors ...

Camille Claudel, 1864-1943, was a headstrong, difficult person from her childhood. She also proved talented for sculpture at an early age....

Lately, I've got several books for "free," by using my Amazon and Amex points. I really like this book. I would love to mak...

This is our January 2019 selection for the book club. It's a good book, about a girl who overcomes a handicap, with a little help from...

Jed gave me this book for my birthday (yesterday), and I read it last night and this morning. We had a wonderful Christmas and birthday ...

This is the book for our next book club meeting. It's very good, about a young slave named George Washington Black, and the three mal...

The book I'm reading now is The Life and Adventures of Nat Love , the autobiography of a former slave. After the War, Nat's father ...

This is a novel based on mythology, set in the period of the Greek & Trojan wars.. Circe, a goddess and a sorceress or witch, is the l...

This is the selection for our next book club meeting. I read it over the weekend. It's sort of a tear-jerker, which is to say I gave up...

I had never read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . It's very good, more like science fiction than horror. Shelley wrote this book when s...

By the end of the book, I had vaguely figured out what was going on. It's a painful book, good writing.

A very good book. Funny, philosophical, and tragic. I finished reading it tonight. Jed drove me to the Whitaker Clinic to my appointmen...

Spent two nights in the urgent care clinic. By the time I got there, the breathing problem had cleared  up, but Dr. Gruman wanted them to ru...

Woke up with shortness of breath, so I guess I'll go to the ER when the doctor calls me back. Still have back and rib pain from the fa...

James Hilton I finished reading it again today. This is another of my "best novels ever written," and this might really be th...

Tuesday night I fell and bumped my back. Prayed the Jesus Prayer till daylight, then spent all day yesterday being driven by my sisters from...

Apropos of the the Congo River, I like Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Congo: a Study of the Negro Race." Lindsay died in 1931; h...

"Tumbling down the rapids from Kinshasa to the Atlantic, the Congo River bursts out of Africa with such force that you can see its sedi...

To me, this seems the most complex and interesting of all the John Green books I have read. The four teenagers, Aya, Daisy, Davis, and Noa...

"Ghoulies and ghosties and ill-tempered beasties, and things that go bump in the night." Jenna is a teen-aged girl whose mother...

The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr "Life has a strange irony. You fight for something--like the right to vote in the South...

I spent yesterday reading the book club selection, Missing Isaac , by Valerie Fraser Luesse. I would give it three stars for a debut novel...

I had given up on a book I ordered through Amazon. They emailed me that it had shipped on May 7. I didn't worry too much, as it didn...