Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , by Susanna Clarke, illustrated by Portia Rosenberg. I could not tell you why I decided to reread Jonatha...

Metropolitan: An Ode to the Paris Metro , published July, 2023 .  Andrew Martin’s ode to the Paris metro ranges over a huge variety of topic...

Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo (1945-2000) You couldn't imagine a less cozy mystery than this graphically violent police story about Ma...

My Favorite Metro Photo: Faded but not Forgotten It’s Paris in July in the world of bloggers, and I’m writing about books set in Paris! My f...

Iceland is a wonderful place. We toured there last summer, and hope to return when such travel is possible. So I was excited to hear about a...

Looking forward to wine and crunchy snacks on the patio, while the weather is still keeping us waiting for spring! This post is linked to th...

All the time, I’m thinking about the war. I’m looking at news sites to see if there’s anything new (there isn’t). I’m feeling terrible for t...

Why it's called a Bing Cherry  Cherries at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market. ...

Marc Levy is a best-selling French novelist. This is the first of his books that I have read. I was disappointed for the same reason that ve...

A Man by Keiichiro Hirano English edition published June, 2020. "In all honesty, I don’t like when other Zainichi  [that is, peo...