A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.