Hiding in the security of all things books, with some movies and tv - occasionally food...
“Even through his coat, he could feel her heat.” Holly Cavanaugh is living with her grandparents and helping them run the local bed and breakfast out of their home. The business isn’t much of a success and she is relying upon a write-up in a celebrated magazine to drum up some much needed business. Without [...]
What’s It About? (from the book jacket) In early 2005, Richard Polsky decided to put his much-loved, hard-won Warhol Fright Wig, up for auction at Christie’s. The market for contemporary art was robust and he was hoping to turn a profit. His instinct seemed to be on target: his picture sold for $375,000. But if [...]
Margaret and Patrick fly to Kenya with the expectation of an exciting adventure. They have been married for a few short months and Patrick, who has been granted permission to conduct his studies in Kenya in exchange for operating free clinics across the country, is a doctor researching equatorial diseases. Margaret is more at loose [...]
September Reading My reading this month and in August was pretty paltry. By my count I read just three books, and all of them were for book tours- so I’m not even sure if I would have read anything at all had it not been for that. Lucky for me, I enjoyed the threesome of [...]
I really enjoyed The Last Dickens, by Matthew Pearl and now you have the opportunity to see if you would like it as well. To enter, please leave a comment with a fact that you know about Charles Dickens. It can be where he’s from, a book he’s written, really anything about him, but it [...]
James Osgood is a partner at Boston publishing company Fields, Osgood & Co., a firm recently honored with the unprecedented opportunity to publish famed author Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood in America. It’s a cut-throat time to be in the publishing business (I don’t know, maybe it still is that) and they are [...]