“The stillness. Ah, the stillness. When there is absolutely no movement in the wind, and you are beyond the hum of motors, it becomes a tangible presence. If you are still and not breathing, you hear the blood pulsing in your... Read More

Three Ways to Disappear / Katy Yocom / Ashland Creek Press / Softcover $18.95 (316pp) / 978-1-61822-083-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Katy Yocom’s immersive and multilayered novel Three Ways to Disappear, Sarah and... Read More

Even as variety is the spice of nature itself, so does the mix of literary forms represented in the five books reviewed here provide zest as they celebrate and instruct, puzzle and preach a bit about our duty as custodians of the... Read More

An attitude of ’been there, done that’ is a half-baked approach to travel—as if every destination has but a handful of easily doable things to see. In truth, too many travel guides encourage this herd approach by writing about the... Read More

There is a certain comfort derived from being fully loaded with a ridiculous number of physical books when traveling. My weeklong vacation over the Thanksgiving holiday included four adult titles and half a dozen children’s board books... Read More