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Books About Life — and Cats

As far as books go, it is always the year of the cat. Just take a look at any bookstore and you can find more than a few books about cats (Cat Daddy, Cat Sense, How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You, I Could Pee on This –poems allegedly by a cat; The Cat Who Went to…

Summer Reading: Good Times

Summer loving is good but summer reading can be even better! I won’t waste your time with long explanations — I want to give you plenty of hours to spend reading! Add in a little loving when you can, and you will have a great summer.

Friendkeeping: a Primer

Friendkeeping by Julie Klam is the book you will want to give all your bestest friends, not as a nudge-nudge, hint-hint reminder of what it takes to be a good friend, but rather as a celebration of just how great friends can be. And if they (or you) pick up a few hints on how to be a…

Great Fun and Good Feelings in Chihuahua Karma

Chihuahua Karma by Debby Rice is a great feel-good read that made me laugh out loud, tugged at my heart-strings, and left me smiling. Available only as an E-book, Rice’s lively, incisive, and addictive writing makes buying an E-reader a good idea…

Comfort and Joy: Bring on the Christmas Pudding

Comfort and Joy by India Knight is a thoroughly delightful foray into one woman’s celebration of Christmas, secular and loving it! Londoner Clara Dunphy is wacky about Christmas and love and sex but when it comes to her children, her family, and…

Another Lesson from Tolstoy

Tolstoy Lied. That is the name of a book a good friend lent to me: “You might be interested in this one,” she noted wryly. Despite its irksome title, Tolstoy Lied by Rachel Kadish is a lovely, witty, and insightful novel of manners. If, that is, manners are even possible within…

G.K. Chesterton and his Unstoppable Father Brown

Yes, I finally finished reading the complete collection of Father Brown Mysteries written by G.K. Chesterton over a period of twenty-five years. I downloaded the collection onto my Kindle and over the past two months have been dipping in and out…

A Shortcut to Paradise: Laughing All the Way

A Shortcut to Paradise is a hysterically funny murder mystery that also serves as…

The Secret Lives of Books

Julie Klam: When Animals Rescue Us

Even if you are not a dog person, you will be a Julie Klam person. Reading about her life through the lens of her relationships with the Boston Terriers she has rescued over the years, I became Klam’s fan, then grew to feel as if she were an old friend, and by the end…