Granny Sue's News and Reviews

I bought this beautiful book from one of my pickers last summer. The cover captivated me, and I know I leafed through it quickly before p...

Winter took its time getting to us this year. Until yesterday, when flurries blew around all day, mixing with the sunshine, and then last ni...

I cannot resist used book sales. In any store I enter, I am drawn like a magnet to racks of books with tattered covers and long outdated...

My reading the past few days has been a bit eclectic. Besides reviewing ghost stories for this week's programs, the following have been ...

It's virtually true, anyway. I am now selling used and collectible books online at Amazon. My collection is getting too large for my she...

I bought a bookshelf at ReStore, the Habitat for Humanity resale place yesterday ( if you haven't been to one of these, you've misse...

It snowed--not a lot, but enough and cold enough temperatures to go with it to keep us indoors all day. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. ...

From the book The Story-Teller by Maud Lindsay (1874-1941) This book is no longer copyrighted and is available full-text online in several...

I love these things. According to the note at the bottom of this picture from The Book of Knowledge published in 1912, there are 17 things w...

Well, some things gotta go to make room for the books I brought home from the used book sale this weekend. Email me if you are interested in...

...just waiting for me to be home more to read them. How many of you have stacks like this? I swear I buy books almost weekly, either online...

Imagine this: I was shopping at a used book store about 7 years ago. I ended up with a pile of books, total cost over $100. There was one ad...

This was my first real cookbook. I had Volume II of the Meta Givens cookbook, and always wanted Volume I. Volume II taught me how to bake br...

We didn't make any cider this year. The apple trees were hit hard by frost, and the drought that has continued from summer into the fall...