Corinne H. Smith is a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She was a librarian for more than 30 years and worked in a variety of school, public and academic libraries. She spent the first 37 of those years in her home state, then lived for eight years in Illinois before deciding to move to central Massachusetts in 2003.

Mysteries are Corinne's favorite kind of fiction. She is an environmentalist, so nature and geography books are high on her list. So are American history, American literature, writing and even some business advice and self-help topics. Sometimes good children's picture books catch her eye. She'll never run out of potential reading material, that's for sure. The stack next to the bed keeps getting higher.

Music has always been present in her life. Piano lessons began in kindergarten. Picking up the flute and piccolo -- her father's chosen instruments -- led her to participate in high school and college bands and choirs as well as with a few community groups. When a talented classmate named Karen Sloat taught her how to manage the G-progression chords on an acoustic guitar, this turned out to be the most fun of all. During her lifetime, Corinne has performed on stages, in orchestra pits, on football fields, in churches, in parades, around campfires, in a bar in Galena, Illinois, and on a street corner in Aspen, Colorado. Corinne came to learn that being in the audience is a less stressful and more enjoyable music experience than being on stage. And yet: she may be heading toward offering public performances again. We'll see.

As for her musical tastes -- well, she's never left the 1970s. Because she wasn't allowed to go to rock concerts when she was a teenager ("Honestly, Mom, Philly's not that far away!"), she's been spending the past three decades making up for lost time. Tickets to see Crosby, Stills & Nash probably outnumber all the rest of the stubs in her growing collection, but the Eagles, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sammy Hagar and Bruce Springsteen aren't far behind. While she was living in the Midwest, Corinne was in the audience for Farm Aid '98 in Tinley Park, Illinois. She dubs that day "the most aromatic" of all the shows she's yet witnessed. She enjoys taking good notes and collecting set lists in order to write concert reviews.

Corinne has been writing reviews for professional library magazines since 1990, and she has posted book reviews online since 1999. She spent many years researching Henry David Thoreau's 1861 "Journey West." Her book, Westward I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau's Last Journey, was released by Green Frigate Books in 2012. A combination biography and activity book for middle graders, Henry David Thoreau for Kids: His Life and Ideas, With 21 Activities, was published by Chicago Review Press in 2016. Corinne always has additional writing projects underway, and she promises that only a few of them are about Thoreau. Stay tuned.

She has spent only a few short months on this planet without a cat by her side. Her current companions are Maizie Dae Nosentail, a tigery Maine coon-like mix who is a terrific mouser, and Jackie Blue, a long-haired gray furball whose daily aim is to dig out and to play with every toy in the toy box. For at least 30 seconds.

When not reading, writing, working or rocking at concerts, Corinne likes to travel and see interesting places. She's driven through 38 states and two Canadian provinces since 1993. Her place is littered with glass jars full of sand, shells and rocks picked up at beaches all over the eastern half of the United States. Corinne can be reached at info@corinnehsmith.com, via corinnehsmith.com or on Facebook as Corinne Hosfeld Smith.

Reviews by Corinne include:

MUSIC:

Diane Arkenstone & Misha Segal
Christmas Healing, Vol. 2

Jeff Black
Tin Lily

Scott Cook
One More Time Around

David Cortello
Through an Open Window

Christopher Cross
Doctor Faith

Jason Paul Curtis
Lovers Holiday

Gareth Davies-Jones
Nine Lessons

Pat Donohue
Nobody's Fault

Dorothy Doring
Southern Exposure

Fire in the Glen
Cutting Bracken

Michael Hill
My Blue Christmas

Gary Hoey
Ho! Ho! Hoey: The Complete Collection

Thea Hopkins
Chickasaw

Lorie Line
Sharing the Season: Piano Instrumentals
Sharing the Season, Vol. 2: Piano Instrumentals
Sharing the Season, Vol. 3
Sharing the Season, Vol. 4: The Big Band

Lori McKenna
The Kitchen Tapes

Don McLean
Christmastime! The Complete Collection

Bruce Piephoff
The Chestnut Tree

Pure Prairie League
All in Good Time

Silver, Wood & Ivory
Christmas with Silver, Wood & Ivory

Lee Penn Sky
Prelude to Hindsight

The Staple Singers
The 25th Day of December

James Taylor
(Live)

Twang Darkly
The Sound of Secret Names

various artists
Home for Christmas: Voices from the Heartland
Songs for a Better Planet, Vol. II

Peter Verity
Sometimes a Journey

Wood & Wire
Wood & Wire


BOOKS:

Julie Andrews, with Emma Walton Hamilton
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Barbara Blossom Ashmun
Married to My Garden

Steven Axelrod
Nantucket Five-Spot: A Henry Kennis Mystery

Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
The Personal Librarian

Carl Bernstein
Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

Dale Berra, with Mark Ribowsky
My Dad, Yogi: A Memoir of Family & Baseball

Eileen Brady
A Kate Turner, D.V.M. Mystery: Muzzled

James Burrows, with Eddy Friedfeld
Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More

John Cherry
Paul McCartney's Solo Music Career, 1970-2010: Life, Love & a Sense of Child-like Wonder

Hillary Rodham Clinton & Louise Penny
State of Terror

Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
Vanderbilt: The Rise & Fall of an American Dynasty

Andrew Cotter
Olive, Mabel & Me: Life & Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs

Walter Cronkite
Cronkite Remembers

Greg Dawson
Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946

Nina de Gramont
The Christie Affair

Florence Ditlow
The Bakery Girls

Mark Dunn
Ibid: A Life, A Novel in Footnotes

Warren C. Easley
Dead Float: A Cal Claxton Mystery
Never Look Down: A Cal Claxton Mystery

Michael D. Eisner
Camp

Jane Ross Fallon
Seven Songs in Seven Days: Journey of an Arkansas Traveler

Carrie Fisher
The Princess Diarist

Amanda Flower
An Emily Dickinson Mystery #1: Because I Could Not Stop for Death
An Emily Dickinson Mystery #2: I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

Peter Frampton, with Alan Light
Do You Feel Like I Do? A Memoir

Al Franken
Al Franken: Giant of the Senate

Emily Franklin
The Lioness of Boston

Shelly Fredman
Brandy Alexander #1: No Such Thing as a Secret
Brandy Alexander #2: No Such Thing as a Good Blind Date
Brandy Alexander #3: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Chad Gayle
Let It Be

Bill Geist
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

Julie Gerstenblatt
Daughters of Nantucket

Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, & Indonesia

Jonathan Gould
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain & America

John Grisham
Camino Island
Camino Winds

Tom Hanks
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Kristin Hannah
True Colors

Michael Harvey
The Fifth Floor

Paul Headrick
That Tune Clutches My Heart

David V. Herlihy
The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer & His Mysterious Disappearance

John L. Herman Jr.
The Innkeeper Tales: Modern-Day Canterbury Tales to Entertain, Enlighten & Empower

Cassidy Hutchinson
Enough

Ken Ilgunas
Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom

Carole King
A Natural Woman: A Memoir

Maxwell King
The Good Neighbor: The Life & Work of Fred Rogers

Stephen King
11/22/63

Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver & Lily Hopp Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (10th Anniversary Edition)

Con Lehane
A 42nd Street Library Mystery: Murder Off the Page

Betsy Lerner
The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir

Beverly Lewis
Annie's People #1: The Preacher's Daughter
Annie's People #2: The Englisher
Annie's People #3: The Brethren
The Courtship of Nellie Fisher #1: The Parting

John R. Lindermuth
Digging Dusky Diamonds: A History of the Pennsylvania Coal Region

Greil Marcus
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music, Sixth Revised Edition

Steve Martin, illustrated by Harry Bliss
Number One is Walking: My Life in the Movies & Other Diversions

Frances Mayes
Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

David G. McCullough
The Wright Brothers

Rosemary Mild
Love! Laugh! Panic! Life with My Mother

Rosemary & Larry Mild
Death Goes Postal
On the Rails: The Adventures of Boxcar Bertie

Jonna L. Miller
Haunting for Time

Paula Morin
Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin

Mitch Myers
The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables & Sonic Storytelling

Colleen Oakley
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise

Barack Obama
A Promised Land

Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen
Renegades: Born in the USA

Michelle Obama
Becoming

Nick Offerman
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
Where the Deer & Antelope Play: Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

D.V. Pasupuleti
Change Your Mind: A Neurologist's Guide to Happiness

Laura Pedersen
Buffalo Gal
Buffalo Unbound: A Celebration

Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Gamache #1: Still Life
Chief Inspector Gamache #2: A Fatal Grace
Chief Inspector Gamache #3: The Cruelest Month
Chief Inspector Gamache #4: A Rule Against Murder
Chief Inspector Gamache #5: The Brutal Telling
Chief Inspector Gamache #6: Bury Your Dead
Chief Inspector Gamache #7: A Trick of the Light
Chief Inspector Gamache #8: The Beautiful Mystery
Chief Inspector Gamache #9: How the Light Gets In
Chief Inspector Gamache #10: The Long Way Home
Chief Inspector Gamache #11: The Nature of the Beast
Chief Inspector Gamache #12: A Great Reckoning
Chief Inspector Gamache #13: Glass Houses
Chief Inspector Gamache #14: Kingdom of the Blind
Chief Inspector Gamache #15: A Better Man
Chief Inspector Gamache #16: All the Devils are Here
Chief Inspector Gamache #17: The Madness of Crowds
The Hangman
State of Terror, with Hillary Rodham Clinton

Rosamunde Pilcher
Winter Solstice

Annie Proulx
Bird Cloud: A Memoir

Evelyn & Lyndon Pugh
Paintings & Poems

Joanna Rakoff
My Salinger Year

Ann Rinaldi
Come Juneteenth

Dwight Rounds
The Year the Music Died, 1964-1972

Oliver Sacks
Musicophilia: Tales of Music & the Brain

John Ralston Saul
Joseph Howe & the Battle for Freedom of Speech

Heidi Jon Schmidt
The Harbormaster's Daughter

Rick Seidel
Sunsets & Shooting Stars: A Cape Cod Memoir

William Shatner, with Joshua Brandon
Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe & Wonder

Carly Simon
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie

Clea Simon
Panthers Play for Keeps

Markham Starr
Barns of Connecticut

Larry G. Straub
Autumn Corridors

Mary Ellen Taylor
The Union Street Bakery

Cindy Thomson
Ellis Island: Grace's Pictures

Beckah Tolley, Raven Duclos & Katie Boyd
Ghost Quest in New Hampshire

Peter Troy
May the Road Rise Up to Meet You

Dick Van Dyke
My Lucky Life In & Out of Show Business

Jeanette Vaughan
Flying Solo: An Unconventional Aviatrix Navigates Turbulence in Life

Jim Walsh
Bar Yarns & Manic-Depressive Mixtapes: Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits

Elizabeth Warren
A Fighting Chance

Jimmy Webb
The Cake & The Rain: A Memoir

Howard P. Willens
History will Prove Us Right: Inside the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Ann & Nancy Wilson with Charles R. Cross
Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul & Rock 'n' Roll

Gary Wright
Dream Weaver: A Memoir; Music, Meditation & My Friendship with George Harrison

Steven Wright
Harold: A Novel


CONCERTS:

Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver

Bryan Adams

Jackson Browne

Glen Campbell, with Instant People

Eric Clapton & Robert Cray

Roger Daltrey, with Paul Freeman

Charlie Daniels Band

John Davidson

The Dead

John Denver: A Rocky Mountain High Concert

The Eagles

Jonathan Edwards

Tommy Emmanuel, with Richard Smith

Peter Frampton (2008)

Peter Frampton (2011)

Genesis

Gov't Mule, with Jackie Greene

Sammy Hagar & Michael Anthony

Billy Joel

Elton John & Billy Joel

Carole King & James Taylor

Kris Kristofferson

Gordon Lightfoot

Kenny Loggins

Kenny Loggins: Live & Unplugged

The Monkees

The Monkees (Farewell Tour)

Michael Martin Murphey

Poco & Pure Prairie League

The Road: My Life With John Denver

Kenny Rogers

Linda Ronstadt & America

Bob Seger with the Silver Bullet Band & Steve Azar

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

Roger Waters


MOVIES:

The American President

Arthur

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Big

Book Club

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Bull Durham

The Christmas Gift

Crossing Delancey

Drumline

80 for Brady

Field of Dreams

Finding Forrester

The First Wives Club

For Love of the Game

French Kiss

The Goodbye Girl

Holiday Inn

Home Alone

Hoosiers

Immediate Family

Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade

It Might Get Loud

Little Women (1933)

Little Women (1949)

Little Women (1970)

Little Women (1978)

Little Women (1994)

Little Women (2017)

Little Women (2018)

Little Women (2019)

Major League

Major League II

A Man Called Otto

The March Sisters at Christmas

Meatballs

Murphy's Romance

The Music Man

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

My Cousin Vinny

North by Northwest

Oh, God!

One Special Night

Outside: From the Redwoods

Respect

Rocketman

Runaway Bride

The Shop Around the Corner

Sister Act

Sleepless in Seattle

Something's Gotta Give

Stripes

Tin Cup

Tootsie

Welcome to Mooseport

What About Bob?

When Harry Met Sally

White Christmas

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