Nancy's Arts & Crafts

Looking back over this blog, I realize this online journal is now mostly about daughter Juliet, not "Arts and Crafts".  And it has...

Our weekly RCIA Meeting on Tuesday night with Fr. Isaac and others, learning about the dignity of life in its many forms. Official Vatican N...

Speakeasy is an online forum for bloggers who review books.  I read books, and blog, and can give an opinion when asked.  So I signed up to ...

Nancy Pearl is a writer, a literary critic, a personage of the literati.  She is a regular commentator on NPR (Morning Edition). And I wri...

Purloined from others' blogs and the Soulbrush Etsy store for a rendition of Mme Ramotswe, as well as the biblical verse that says ...

Being enamoured of English country life, I was delighted over the summer to learn of an older book by a Scottish author coming onto the Ki...

Since it did not cost money and was purported to have 54 pattern instructions, why not get a free book for my Kindle app?  So I did. But w...

Abraham Verghese brought the story of the beggar's slippers to my attention in Cutting for Stone .   It is worth a reprise here.  (Chapt...

One of the best digital downloads that I have recently purchased is the book What Would Madam Defarge Knit ? (Creations Inspired by Classic ...

Ironically, sadly, three chemo hats are still in my cedar chest that my mother used during her cancer treatment in 1999, and that I saved be...

Claim to be Irish?  Even our pup (French poodle mix) is Irish today and outdoes the clip art, IMHO. Doctor Libby (aka Libby the Therapy Dog...

Susan Howatch is another of my favorite authors.  Howatch was introduced to me (her writings, not her person) by my SIL Charlotte.  We both ...

Do you like mystery books?  If so, don't you love Elizabeth George? You might like to go to George's website and peruse all the ...

Please sit back and relax as you tour through London, Bath and Wales on the Craftlit Tour:

A quick message to say the stage play Oliver! that the Craftlit group saw in London last week at the Royal Drury Lane Theater was over the ...

This is a partial listing of books I've been listening to, along with a few quick notes about the books/authors. Excellent! one is The...

Found this here the day AFTER I took a huge load of books to Goodwill : There must have been a lot of glue involved.

Over the past five years, I have held onto some old books for a friend.  She told me to try and sell them if I could.  No book establishment...

Written by Rumer Godden in 1961, China Court: The Hours of a Country House was reviewed by The Book Diva at Viewpoints with this quick sum...

After reading A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber several years ago, my sister-in-law and I got hooked on reading all of her books. The main cha...