J says: Read this one. It’s a really good story about a teenaged android who first realizes she can taste and it escalates to desire not just for food but for freedom…

 sez: George has noticed a small rash on his hip. If he chooses to ignore it everything will be fine. He will lend support to his daughter as she prepares for her second wedding. He…

   I have been dabbling in some non-fiction reading: I believe this to be true: non-fiction reading fuels the imagination.  And in the depths of this winter I needed my imagination to be poked and…

J’s been checking books off her reading list: Maybe because I’m supposed to be writing a research dissertation right now that I am in the mood to read fiction. Maybe it’s human nature…

j: My latest read was The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty. It spans almost the whole 20th century about the life of a woman who came to the Midwest from NY on an orphan…