The Black Sheep Dances

..." I want to use the time it takes. Time is important to me now, I tell myself. Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but be onl...

This is a new book by a first time novelist, just released last week.  Bandy and Ione live near Lake Fork, Idaho;  this book picks up after ...

“So now all of that was public knowledge but what was the point except to indicate the decline of a House, the Fall of a reputable family, t...

Thanks to NTIUpstream Press and Bloomsbury USA/Walker Books for the Advance Readers copies to review...they look great! Also, great job at...

City of Thieves , David Benioff:  historical fiction, no spoilers! I've read many books about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust over the ...

Sometimes I have to catch my breath when I see this sweet little face!  Mommy's sweetheart...

Susan Faye print, see her great stuff at Etsy.com!

I finished this yesterday with a sense of sadness, as it's the last of the Petterson books that I have.  I know he's written more, b...

I recently read an article about a woman who began giving away her precious items, per the tradition of the Native American Lakota tribe.  I...

Confession is one of the main tenets of Catholicism, and this memoir by Mary Karr seems to be both the confession and the penance she pays i...

In the Wake by Per Petterson... I'm sleep walking today as I ended up sucked into this book all night long and ended up with maybe an ...

Some new goodies to keep me warm in winter: Shyness and Dignity by Dag Stolstad In the Wake , and To Siberia by Per Petterson The Kind...

"Sometimes it takes the darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn that anything or anyone that does not bring you a...

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out...

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart How is it that no other news organization addresses this stuff? Last night he points out how Fox News and ...

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Marcus Aurelius

Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when e...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3AgOMddUo&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-HM LOL  A spoken word poet!

http://www.billythekiddocumentary.com/   See the trailer here! "I know I'm unique, but I won't let it go to my head," sa...

Thanks to an online friend in Australia, I have a link to some hard to find Winton novels to complete my collection.  Yay! Scission came ...

I normally don't have the concentration required to watch an entire movie in one sitting, but this week I managed two. The Shawshank R...

I think I'm wrong.  I said two posts ago that it shouldn't matter what an author's personal beliefs or actions are if they are w...