The Bear Went Over the Mountain

What do you think of when I say the word trombonist? This, I’ll bet: No, really, take the time to watch it. I’ll wait. There. Was I right? Now listen to this: So, is that what you were expec...

https://rosethornfiddle.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/the-voice-of-god/

Yesterday I saw an article about the traditional eight-hour workday and for some reason I was drawn to read it despite the fact that I haven’t had an eight hour workday in years; depending on h...

https://rosethornfiddle.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/what-to-do-what-to-do/

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief Toward the end of the alphabet I manipulated some of the letters pretty excessively so today I thought I’d better pull myself together and end on an honest and ups...

https://rosethornfiddle.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/the-letter-z-a-to-z-challenge/

The Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux   I grabbed this tattered book from a twenty-five cent sale box decades ago, a beat up, water damaged hardback bound in a once-lurid shade of red...

https://rosethornfiddle.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/the-letter-y-a-to-z-challenge/

Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge A poem which is sometimes informally called “Xanadu” even if the real name is “Kubla Khan” was such an obvious and irresistible choice for the Letter...

https://rosethornfiddle.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/the-letter-x-a-to-z-challenge/

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame Well, I’ve been waiting all month to talk about The Wind in the Willows, and when I woke up to a warm sun, a kind blue sky and a scented breeze it se...

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A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle Note:  As Provence is in the region of Vauclaus, and as the Peter Mayles lived in a house with a Vineyard, I feel that there are sufficient Letter V’s associ...

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U stands for Undecided Throughout this challenge books have been practically flinging themselves out of the bookcase shouting, “Pick me! Pick me!” and more than once I have read through two o...

https://rosethornfiddle.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/the-letter-u-a-to-z-challenge/

Travels With Charley, by John Steinbeck Four years of summer college music tours throughout Europe and Asia infected me with a disgusting sense of superiority as well as with a great lust for tra...

https://rosethornfiddle.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/the-letter-t-a-to-z-challenge/

The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas* **   The Three Musketeers is one of my five beloved paperbacks, the soft and cuddly ones I mentioned before that are as comforting as old shoes and as w...

https://rosethornfiddle.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/the-letter-s-a-to-z-challenge/