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Here it is, my Top 10 list of the year. It's in no particular order, four non-fiction & six fiction titles. Unsurprisingly, only one...

The Octopus is the story of the conflict between wheat farmers & the railroads in California in the 1880s. If, like me, you thought t...

On the day before the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the children massacred by Herod in his search for Jesus, the only carol to listen to is...

Merry Christmas to everyone who visits I Prefer Reading. Thank you for your conversation over the year. Lucky, Phoebe & I hope you a...

I do like to read Christmas books around this time of year. Yesterday I started my annual reread (or relisten) of A Christmas Carol , read...

I've always loved this carol but was surprised to learn that it's not medieval as I'd always thought, but 20th century. The Re...

Just after WWII, the artist Laurence Whistler (brother of Rex ), wrote this charming book about English festivals through the year. He wan...