Books

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

The House That Jack the Quipper Built: Drop Dead Gingerbread Cred

Elephants Can Remember Christmas Sweater Weather: The Gift of Peace and Mirth

Holiday Hi-jinks With Heart: Heed the Call of Codi Hall

Library Lovers and a Sleuth Undercover

Cheese, Please: Sandwich Generation Revelation

Fireworks Fowl and a Perp on the Prowl: Game for a Ghoulish Thanksgiving

Late Bloomer Boomer and See You Again Sooner: Reconciliation Celebration

Halloween Hues and Boo-tiful Coos: Scary Secondary to None

Kiss and Spell: This Magic Omen

Are You Ready for Some Cupcakes?

The Road Less Traveled: Free Wheel Feels

Last Chance Romance, Storybook Style

Clued for Thought: Murder Mysteries on the Menu

Blast from the Past: The Key to Creativity

Cash Crash: Flash in the Pan and Clash in the Clan

Do Not Disturb, Kick Crime to the Curb: All's Well That Ends Well in the Gran Scheme of Things

Sex Equals Death: The Mystery of Romance and the Romance of Mystery

World Renowned?  Get Out of Town!  No Woman is an Island.

Rebecca Serle's Mother of Pearl Pearls of Wisdom

Crustacean Vacation Incarceration

Game Show Inspo: What's in a Name?

Stars Above and Last Chance Love: Friends and Lovers and Mothers

Special Delivery: Baby Girl Blooms

Fantasy vs. Reality: A Date With DNA Destiny

This is Your (Beach) Life

Viva la Meutre Mystère: An American in Distress 

The Amore Way: Love, Italian Style

Cold Hold: You Scream, I Scream, We All Scheme for Ice Cream

Hop Happy: A New Breed of Bunny

Big City to Bigger Sky: A Heaping Slice of Humble Pie

B is for Books About Bunnies and Babies

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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