My Interest: Most of my father’s childhood summers were spent in Rogers Park [Chicago]. His cousin was a Benedictine at St. Scholastica and taught at Cabrini Green. My parents lived in the neighborhood, too, after they left college. My grandparents eventually settled in Evanston. I was born at a southside hospital and my family then… Continue Reading →
My Interest I have seen this book mentioned all over the place. It sounded interesting–and good. Thank you to Liz at the blog Adventures in Reading, Running, and Working From Home for pushing this up my TBR. Won’t you click and read her review, too, and leave her a nice comment? We bloggers live on… Continue Reading →
I love to cook at least as much as I love to read/listen to books. A surprise hit post in 2021 was a a post about 3 favorite new recipes–all of which I’m still loving! So, for my freebie this week I thought I’d post about some cookbooks that interest me. New to me–late Christmas… Continue Reading →
Oh dear! I signed up for this, did a lot of reading, but forgot to go back and post my reviews or hash-tag them. I am truly sorry Intrepid Reader! It is wonderful of you to host this year-long challenge. I’ve made sure to hash-tag this post! #histficreadingchallenge I did my Mid-Year post here. Click… Continue Reading →
My Interest I’ve read the first 16 of Anne Perry’s William Monk books and one of her World War I series. I love Monk and Hester and their friends. Perry’s Christmas books usually center on a lesser character from one of her series. I like that. The Story Charles Latterly, brother of Hester, is recently… Continue Reading →
This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title (or another nonfiction!). It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical novel and you’d like to get the real history by reading a nonfiction version of… Continue Reading →
My Interest Long ago I interviewed for a job in the Loop–aka downtown Chicago. It would have required commuting by train. Around that time, my cousin got jury duty for a federal trial and had to go down to the courthouse in Chicago by train. A mother of a toddler, she was thrilled to be… Continue Reading →
Books can be linked in obvious ways – for example, books by the same authors, from the same era or genre, or books with similar themes or settings. Or, you may choose to link them in more personal ways: books you read on the same holiday, books given to you by a particular friend, books that… Continue Reading →
My Interest It sometimes feels like my first 10 years were spent in the backseat of my dad’s company care driving one direction or the other on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago. The huge Federal housing project known as The Robert Taylor Homes, those reddish or cement-colored apartment buildings were one of the main… Continue Reading →
Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill) later in life and Consuelo Vanderbilt (Duchess of Marlborough) The Lost Summers of Newport put me in a Gilded Age mood. While that era (approximately 1870 to 1900) is only one of the three timelines in the story, it is a favorite era of mine. So, here are a few… Continue Reading →
Hopewell's Public Library of Life 