A Reader's Respite is taking our show on the road and so this week we'll talking about books from Kona, Hawaii. Well, we will b...

In case I’ve never mentioned it, I have a fetish for organization. Some might even diagnose call it a little obsessive-compulsive. Y...

TUDORFEST 2013 Yesterday I dropped a few hints about my reading list for the Fall Readathon. And that, my friends, is where TUDOR...

Yes, it's almost here. The fall READ-A-THON! I truly do look forward to these twice-a-year events and not just because it gives me ...

It's come to my attention (and I probably should have thought of this myself) that there are many book lovin' folks and Goodreads us...

Dear Goodreads, It is with great sadness, a heavy heart and more than a little anger that I hereby resign my membership from your online c...

A little feature article appeared in yesterday's edition of the Washington Independent Review of Books entitled The Top Ten Histor...

Consider, then, this little mnemonic and you'll never forget who's who in English history again..... William the Conqueror long di...

Historical fiction can be broken down into numerous sub-genres, but one of the most important distinctions is between modern historical fict...

The Literary Guild review went something like this..... "...what Stephen King would write like, if Stephen King could write."...

Well, almost. We're not the journaling type.  But if we were, A Reader's Respite would have to write in this: These folks mak...

As critical as Fitzgerald was of other author's works, he was apparently inept when it came to titling his own novels.  Among the tit...

On September 27, 1929 Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms was published.  According to legend, Hemingway sent a draft of the novel ...

Summer is always a short affair in the Pacific Northwest and this year it seemed even shorter than most.  A Reader's Respite took the p...

A Reader's Respite has been in hiding for the past week or so.  With Book Blogger Appreciation Week inundating blog-world, we though...

Happy Birthday, DH.  You would have been 115 years old today.  Had you not died of tuberculosis back in 1930, that is.  (Sorry about that, b...