Does reading a novel ever become an ordeal? Do you sometimes find yourself plugging through a book just to get through it? That proved my ex...

My niece once told me she was reading A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.   To her, it seemed more like an endless ...

In The Blotting Book by E. F. Benson, one of the characters, a lawyer who manages another character’s estate, visits his...

For today’s post, I had planned to discuss “Adaptations,” by Connie Willis.   This short story, contained in her collection Mira...

Growing up as a Protestant in America, I saw churches as mere buildings, places where believers (the true church) gathered to worship.  Aft...

As an American, I grew up hating England.  All right, perhaps that is an overstatement.  After all, I have never been especially motivated ...