by Mary According to a song popular with children, Nellie the elephant packed her trunk before running off to join a circus, a very poor ...

by Eric This time of year I always think about long ago school vacations when my family moved to a cottage at the lakeside picnic grove t...

by Mary As this novel opens, Leslie Seaforth and his fiancee Joyce Hazlemere are visiting the Struan Museum. Its eccentric collection inclu...

by Eric Years ago I purchased a Dover trade paperback edition of C. Daly King's 1935 novel Obelists Fly High. Dover's catalog fe...

by Mary When I was in my mid-teens my favourite teacher was the fellow who taught the English class. Given our age group, my classmates ...

by Mary Much of the plot of The Twenty-One Clues revolves around members of the dwindling congregation of the Church of Awakened Israel, ...

by Mary I collect unusual words and recently learned a new one: slum-gullian, courtesy of a gent we know in Virginia who also provided a p...