My husband read BOUND TO PLEASE by Michael Dirda, which is called “Essays on Great Writers and Their Books”. After he finished, I started reading it. Kids, do. Dirda is a literary critic, the kind who seldom reviews the books he dislikes. He says he’s…

I told you about how Mom huffed a pill and it got stuck in her lung and they had to send a team of doctors down her throat with a jackhammer and a crowbar to get it out, right? Yesterday, I took her to the…

That’s because THE CORNER CAFE is a short story collection by a group of writer friends in the Blog Book Tour Cafe yahoo group. Here’s something about some of the stories. See if anything here appeals to you: * “The Catfish Enchantment” by Marian Allen:…