Books

Some (but probably not all) of the posts in which I review, reference, or otherwise expound upon books in no particular order:

Post St. Patrick's Day Pose

One Darn Yarn: Fostering Calm Through Crafting

Small Town, Big Heart, Up Down, Fresh Start

Sorority of Satire: Never Judge a Book by its Lover

Cake Walk, Perp Walk: A Book Between Two Blouses

War of the Words: Love Language Anguish

Pet Peeve Dry Heave: Don't Eat the Chocolate

Pop Culture Vultures and Lovebirds

Maid in the Shade, Then the Sunshine

Pop Culture Puns and Trees by the Ton

Season's Readings: A Novel Noel

If These Walls Could Gawk: Real Deal Reveal

Key West Mess, Thanksgiving Style

Main Course Corpse and Other Holiday Horrors

Untamed Twin Flames: A Love Story

October Outings, Part Two: A Book Club Party and a Baby Shower

Sisters Without Misters: A Romcom for Grown-Ups

Chemical Reaction Retraction

Cupcake Wake: Unwed and Undead

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater

Which Witch Stitch: The Power of Polka Dots

Walking in a Wardrobe Web

Pumpkin Spice and Things Not so Nice: Another Cute Cupcake Caper

Food for the Distraught: Murder With a Side of Munchies

Ghost Story Glory: An Icon into the Either

New Lease Release: The Old Apartment

When Life's Got You Stressed, Grandmother Knows Best

Catch as Cat Can: Wild and Crazy Buys

Treasure Hunt Stunt: Shock and Aw, Wild Style

Lake Remake: One to Play on Repeat

What Happens in the Galapagos Stays in the Galapagos

Engineering Excitement: The Better to Hear You With

Panhandle Scandal

Lake Break: Second Chance Romance Edition

Leisurely Reading and Unchecked Force Feeding: Just Another Unsolved Mystery

From Summer Fling to Year Round Thing: A Romance for the Books

Liar, Liar, Grants on Fire: Love, Academia Style

Dearly Departed and Humor Whole Hearted: A Romance Writer's Resurrection

Prediction Friction: Killer Cookie

No Sugar in My Tea: Two Kinds of Cozy

A Book Review and a New Necklace Too: Celebrating Summer in Style

Bad Guys and the Guise of Surprise: Staying Ahead of the Hat Game

After the Fire, into the Fryer

SySTEMically Sweet: Love Sick Schtick 

Memorial Day: Memory Lane and a Mushroom

Six-String Fling or Lifelong Thing?: Lights, Camera, Attraction!

The Spoof is on Fire and Other Conflagrations

Forever Fikry

Books We Read on Vacation

No Wordplay Today: The Title of This Book is Enough

Dunder Mifflin Tiff? As If! The Office BFFs Put it All Down on Paper

Dying of Dysentery and Laughter: Finally Found My Rodeo Clown

A Heaping, Heartland Helping of Miracle Grip

From Nostalgia to Now: Election Connection

Giving Pants and France a Chance

Brunson Burner

Tea Time Crime

A Passion for Fashion and Family

Festive Fits and Fatal Hits: Don't Get Murdered this St. Patrick's Day (Weekend)

Self Care Dare: Compendium of Compassion

Shannon Cannon

Sister Sleuths: Cooking up Carbs and Chaos

Big Hearts and Body Parts

Having My (Coconut) Cake and Eating it Too

Fashion Victim, but Make it Funny

The Fame Game: Rock Star Edition

Only Book Club With People You Love

What the World Needs: What is, Women's Wit and Wisdom

Love Songs -- and Life -- on a Loop

Thriller Chiller: Don't Take That Tone With Me

Nightmare Tally: The Dark Side of Dreams

Old Maid Brigade and a Birthday Unscathed: 90 is the New 70

Eating Out and Eating In, a Happy, Hearty Birthday Win

Haberdasher Crasher

One for the Books: Christmas Cowls Just be Claus

A Horticulturist's Holiday: Planting Kisses and Kindness

Yule Log Hog: Merry Christmas Eve

Season's Heatings: Romance to the Rescue

Breakin' All the Rules This Jule (P. S. That's Danish for Christmas)

Light Plight Turned Delight: Christmas is Coming

Crime Fiction Affliction: Making it Write

Moon Tunes: Livin' La Vida Lunar

Covert Missions and New Traditions: Home is Where the Tart Is

Big Apple Bites and Lean Cuisine Nights: Death Never Takes a Vacay

From Pals to Wow: Catfish Tales That Tip the Scales

Flowering Trees and Sparkling Seas: The Power of Prince Edward Island

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Silly Stories to Read in the Park

Rock n' Roll Toll: The Grass is Never Cleaner

Second Banana to None: Going Ape for Abbi Waxman

Exchange Rate Fate, Fresh Clean Slate: The Price of Peace of Kind

Space Cowgirl Pearls: Cacti and Aliens

Blood Test Blues Beget New Shoes -- And Also Happy Endings

High School Rules and Fools: An Education

From Page to Stage (er, Screen): Run, Don't Crawl to the Cove

Air in the Heart: Hearts in the Air

Navy Lady: Hue Book Value

An Alpine Adieu and an Ode to Books Too

Moving Mountains: Gold Star Stay the Catskills Way



Bric-a-Brac Snacks

Habitat for Calamity: The Heart is a Lonely Punter

Patch Match: Make Mine Melon

Daydream Weaver, Cabin Fever: Wording My Way Back to Two

Every Dog Has its Stay: Fetch and Release

Chicken, Cheese, and a Handful of Zzzzzzzzzzzs: Fighting for a Bite of Bob's Burgers

(Isa)Belle Breaks a Spell: Rose Petal Kettle

Not Just a (Boston) Girl

Friends 'til the End if the End is the Middle

Burying the Read: Par for the Corpse

More Than Nerds: Sharks Mate for Life

New Wave Rave: Rock Around the Clock of Seagulls

Summer Wife, Summer Life: That's the Way the Cookie Humbles

Stranger Flings: Writing to Mr. Right

Goodwill Spill: The Lion, the Ditch, and the Wardrobe

Charmer in the Dell: The Cheese Stands Alone (But Not Always)

Love Lessons: Girl World Unfurled

Easter Aftermath: Hats Off to Whodunits

Tit for Tat and All of That: Wife Lessons on the Marriage Carriage

Denial File: Spy Me a River

Save the Drama for Your Mama: A Beach Bard's Good-bye

Ptomaine Gain: Hawaii, Here We Come

Last Call, Last Brawl: Shamrock Shock Rocks Tinker's Cove

Yellow Brick Mode, Clover Day Way

McNear and Far, Just the Drive the Car . . . of Your Imagination

Renaissance Wear, Scarborough Flair: A Tried and True Trend for All Thymes

Summer Stuns Before the Fall

Cake Talk: Bloom Where You're Slanted

My Book Club, My Boyfriend

Women's March Madness

The Bad Old Cays: Another Maine Murder

Sass by the Glass: Grape Expectations

A Spark in the Dark


Decoration Vacation: Mites and Lights

It's Beginning to Book a Lot Like Christmas

Rudd Stud: Rhinestone in the Rough

From Texas to LA to Phoenix: Never Judge a Book by its Lover

Fate Gate: Written in the Scars

On Her Own but Not Alone: A Woman of Her World

Wardrobe Woes and Close Call Clothes: Yarns That Pull at the Heartstrings 

Little Boy Blue and a Grown Man Too: Empathy Never Gets Old

Beach Block Blues: Don't Hit Snooze, Your Pop Rock Jam is Up Next

Saab Story Dory: Still Waters Pun Deep

Style File and Young Love's Denial: The Legend of Zelda, Game Over

Party of One, Party of Fun: One Isn't the Loneliest Number

Vacation, All I Ever Hunted: Friends Without Benefits

Sex, Surprise, and Videotape: Love Conquers Gall

Detecting Deadly Sins: Moths and Sloths

Stockholm Syndrome Symbiosis: My Bank Robber, My BFF

Friends Forever, Ending Never: Once More on the Orange Couch

Ruby Room Rendezvous: A Romance for the Pages

Shrill Quill, Will Thrill: What Happens When Easton Meets West

Geek Peek Seeks Tweak: Go Get Those Goggles, Cowboy

Trash Bash: Celebrating (and Berating) Stinky

Sweat Suit Tribute: R&R: Reading and Relaxation

Light at the End of the Funnel Neck: Shirts of Schrute

Top Forty, Top Five, Prepare for the Dive: Growing Up is Hard to Do

Love Sessions, Life Lessons: All's Fair in the Baggage Claim Game

Big Summer Stunner: Mean Girls Gone Wild

Breaking the Gold Mold: 99 Red Birthday Balloons

Sleuth Spoof: Deserts and Daheim: A Case of Killing It

The Lady and the Tiger: Prints Don't Make the Princess

Day One, Fun Run: Sneakers That Ignite a Spark

Christmas Cardinal: Direction Connection

Poirot Christmas Pudding: Gettin' Figgy With It

Christmas Book Nook: Courting Cozy

Reformed Rocker Shocker: One for the Record Books

A Case of Space: Reach for the Mars Bar

Under the Archway . . .

Social Norms and Self-made Storms: Squeeze in Under the Umbrella

Back to Mule Cool

Coming of Age Takes Center Stage: The Best is Yet to Strum

Missed Connection Objection: From Wif-fi to Wifey

Life Imitates Heart: Putting the Moves on Movies

Oodles of Noodles and, Yes, a Caboodle

Sea-ing is Believing: Salt Water Works

Library Living, the Gift that Keeps Giving . . .

Starry Night Sandwich

Sometimes the Gables are Greener: Little Orphan Anne's Odyssey

Putting My Love Up on the Shelf: From Canada to Singapore With Detours in Between

Wardrobe Wars: Jane of the Concrete Jungle

Book Cook Nook: Bon Appe-treat

Clean Food, Cool Dude: Inside Voices, Please

Green Queen: Mistress Marilla

A Room of My Own: Part 2

Ship Shape Escape: Family Feud Unglued

A Room of My Own: Part 1

Rainbow Swirl Summer: Revolution Ablution

Modern Love and 2000 Gushes

Cirque du Sol-Play

Clarions for Marian (and Clarins Too)

Silver Screen Dream: Reel Romance

Women's Lit and Ladies' Wit: Writers Gotta Write

Glad Tidings and Tidying

Rhyme Time Crime: Merry Christmas

Hello, Jell-O: I've Got a Bone to Pick With You

Oliphant in the Room . . .

Outerwear Hoarder, Just Can't Cut the Corder (by which, of course, I mean corduroy)

Calling All Cacti: Late Bloom Baby Boom, Drink it In

Bear Flair: The Joy of Corduroy

Happy Haunt Jaunt: Jackets and Jack-o'-Lanterns

Video Grilled the Radio Star: Fry No More, Cyborgs, We've Bot You

Sky High: Altitude Attitude

No Llama Drama: Where the Mild Things Are . . .

Outer Banks Thanks: Sparky Spark and the Funny Bunch

F is for Fins and Feathers . . .

The Ties That Blind: Birds of a Tether

Fate Expectations: We Didn't Start the Pyre

Bridal Blues and Social Cues

Black Tragic: Dark Side of the Moon

Rind Finds and a Sweet and Tart Treat: Summer, Start Your Engine

Kick Start My Heart: Feels for Heels

Pen to Caper: Keeping it Real With My Pal Chenille

Pastel Rainbows and White Tornadoes: Telling Tween Tales from the Tripped

Diamonds are a Girl's Best Spend . . .

Boots Blues and Other Shoes: Patent Leather to Leather-like Plastic

When Pigs Fly: Perfectly Imperfect

Bright Tights, Big City

Page Match: Ann With a Tee vs. Anne of Green Cables

Restasis Oasis: Arizona Iced Weeee! What a Well Watered Cactus

Black and White and Dead All Over: The Flavor of Fare Far from Simple

Singapore Sling Bling: Make Mine a Mocktail

Red Barn Yarn: Sevens to Betsey and Then Some

The Nature of Reading and Rainbows

Constance Wu Plays Rachel Chu: Crazy About Crazy Kitsch Asians

Feather Your Quest: Owl Always Love Books

I'm So Hungry I Could Eat a Horse . . .

Small Thunder: Tiny But Mighty

Quelle Surprise: Color Me Scrappy

Romancing the Tone: A Love Affair With Shoes

Ribbons and Bows and Lots of New Clothes: I Enjoy being a (Gilmore) Girl

Rad, Dad . . .

Animal Charm: Win, Lose, or Mall and Cock-a-Doodle Zoo

The Drawbacks of Tiebacks: (Not So) Fast Food and Matters of Art

Insects Appeal Served up Spot: Spring Has (Sort of) Strung

Boys Don't Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses . . .

Sun Ripe Stripes and Other Hype: Hey, How's it Hanging, New Earrings?

Amusement Park Lark: Epic Equine Edition

Snow Falling on South Jersey: Entertainment Blitz Blizzard

Cherries and Berries and Mushrooms: A Walk in the Woods With a Fungi

We Three Rings of Orient Are and Santa Claus is Coming to Clown

Best Western: These Boots Were Made for Squawking

Bat Out of Spell: Happy Halloween Sans the Scary

Something Bold, Something True, Something Borrowed, Something Glue-y

Falling for Felt: Leaves of Sass

Farm Charm Favorites: E-I-E-I-Whoa

Candy Wish Dish and Birdbath Wrath Revelation

Cool Daddy-O Patio: Papa Don't Beach Without Sunnies

Knit Wit Brit: Bridget Jones Joneses for Junior

Romper Room Vroom: Three's Company Hue

Some Bunny Loves Peeps . . .

Flip This House; Fling This Bling

Sugar and Spice and Everything Dice: Part 3

At the Heart of the Batter: Conversation and Cupcakes with Christopher Walken

Sugar and Spice and Everything Dice: Part 2

Sugar and Spice and Everything Dice: Part 1

Sugar and Spice and Everything Dice: An Introduction

Motley New and Chick Lit Too: A Case of Mistaken Serenity

Play Gardens: A Rose by any Other Frame . . .

Puff Piece: Pompom Wonderful

Chris This: Hats Off to Columbus and a British Baby

Charm Farm Harvest: Falling for Flash Charms (Again) and Playing the Scotland Yard Card

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Brigantine Too

Books about Books and Hot Homemade Looks: Confections from the Tote Trove Kitsch Kitchen

Just Plucky: Sleuthin' and Stylin' With Stella Ducktropolis

Sitcoms Say it with Silly: Flagging Down Life's Lessons in the Fast Food Lane

A Prairie Gnome Companion: From Highbrow to Lowbrow and Every Hair in Between

What up, Oiseau?  And the Power of O

Palm Trees and Water Skis: Caribbean Christmas, You've Got Game

One Tale, Four Legs: Zoo Story.  Also, Some Words from a Would-be Zookeeper

To be or Not to be . . . Interesting.  That is the Question.

Country Capers and Old-timey Vapors: Flying Southwest for the Winter

Bow Knows Prose

Paper or Plastic?  Teen Angst is in the Bag in John Green's Paper Towns

Magical Mystery Story Tour

Lunar Ladies Who Rock(et): Fashion and Friendship in The Astronaut Wives Club

Soft Serve for Soft Hearts: Remembering Marvelous Maeve

On the Topic of Tropics Part Two and the Pull of Papyrus

I Can Bead a Rainbow

Easter on Edge

Critters, Crimes, and Krafty* Times

A Tale of Two Witties and Four Vintage Pretties

Girls Just Want to Have Puns

Total Eclipse of the Art

Bubblegum Ball Blowout: Part 2

The ABCs of Accessories

An Eraser Chaser and a Book With Heart

Land of a Thousand Necklaces . . .

The Leftovers

Charmed, in Store, and a Shutterbug Showdown

The Rainbow Collection . . .

Waxing Poetic . . .

Strawberries: Not a Patch on Hue and Other Memorial Day Musings

On the Road with a Bicycle and Bananas and Birds

On Mullets and Typewriters

The Candid Sweet Potato . . .

Book Report: I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

Book Report: Candy Apple Dead by Sammi Carter

You've Got Character

Book Report: I Hate Everyone . . . Starting With Me and Murder at the Academy Awards (both) by Joan Rivers

At the Movies: The Guilt Trip

Book Report: All the Pretty Hearses by Mary Daheim

Book Report: Threadbared by Kimberly Wrenn and Mary Watkins

Book Report: 29 by Adena Halpern

Book Report: Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl about Love by Justine van der Leun

Book Report: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Book Report: Men in Kilts by Katie MacAlister

Book Report: The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square by Rosina Lippi

Book Report: Moon River and Me by Andy Williams

Book Report: Frill Kill by Laura Childs

Book Report: Makeovers at the Beauty Counter of Happiness by Ilene Beckerman

Book Report: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

Book Report: Cordina's Crown Jewels by Nora Roberts

Bounce Goes the Bauble

Book Report: Confessions of a Country Architect by Don Metz

Book Report: Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy

Book Report: Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea Handler

Book Report (sort of): Geeky Dreamboats: A Celebration by Sarah O'Brien and Lacey Soslow

Book Report: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

Book Report: The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks

Book Report: George and Martha

Season's Readings

Book Report: The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman

Book Report: Echoes by Maeve Binchy

Shiny Things

Book Report: An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

Book Report: Shopgirl by Steve Martin

Something New and Sparkly - Ring Around the Rosie

Book Report: Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts

Big Hair

Book Report: Loco Motive by Mary Daheim

Book Report: Nantucket Nights by Elin Hilderbrand

Book Report: A Desirable Residence by Madeleine Wickham

Book Report: Vision in White by Nora Roberts

Book Report: The Pretend Wife by Bridget Asher

Book Report: The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand

Book Report (sort of): I Love Ken: My Life as the Ultimate Boyfriend by Jef Beck

Book Report: Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts

Book Report: Crossroads by Belva Plain

Book Report Gets a New Twist: Author Interview with Ann Summerville

Book Report: Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love by Cathy Day

Book Report: The Gatecrasher by Madeleine Wickham

Book Report: The Ungarnished Truth by Ellie Matthews

Book Report: The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell

Book Report: Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Book Report: This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

Book Report: Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

Book Report: Marley and Me by John Grogan

Book Report: (A Taste of) Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke

Book Report: (Untangling) Sleeping Arrangements with Madeleine Wickham

Book Report: (Deciphering) The Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice

Book Report: Chicken Soup for the Shopper's Soul (More Than I Bargain For)

Book Report: Deadly Housewives

Book Report: (A Blogger's Take On) Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

Book Report: (And Now for Something a Little More Intellectual) Second Shift by Arlie Russell

At the Movies with a Book Report: (Some Last Words on) The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

Book Report: The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes

Book Report: Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart

Book Report: The Wedding Girl by Madeleine Wickham

Book Report: Are You There, Vodka?  It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

Book Report: The Handmade Marketplace by Kari Chapin

Book Report: (Another Walk) Downtown with Anne Rivers Siddons

Let's Talk about Text: A Few Words about Nora Roberts

Book Report: (A Book with) Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy

Crafty Notes in Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Book Report: Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Book Report: (Rereading) Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Book Report: (Some More Words about) How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely

A Few Random Notes

Book Report: (Some Words about) How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely

Shoe Score

Book Report: Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison

When Unicorns Attack

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