Book Review: Before We Were Strangers
What happened to Clara McBride? This is the central question in Brenda Novak‘s riveting Before We Were Strangers. When she was just five years old, her daughter Sloane overheard her parents’ […]
Author Archives: Anne Caroline Drake
Book Review: Obama
After watching a PBS documentary about White House photographer Pete Souza, I very much wanted to see his photos in Obama: An Intimate Portrait. This coffee table book sells for less than […]
Book Review: Disloyal
I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them. – Michael Cohen In Disloyal, A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to […]
Recipe: Curried Cheese Spread with Chutney
This simple yet elegant recipe harkens back to the snob-central days of the Junior League in Chicago circa 1974. It is one of my favorites and one of very few […]
Isolation Well-Being
Sadly, we’re at the 250K statistic of Covid-19 deaths. Most of us won’t be celebrating the holidays as we had hoped in order to keep our loved ones and ourselves […]
Book Review: Where Law Ends
I’m so happy that I didn’t buy Where the Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann. The author portrays himself as a brilliant, ethical prosecutor. […]
Book Review: Big Summer
Drue Cavanaugh is steeped in white privilege. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner rips away that facade and exposes the empty, painful loneliness within: I’d chased after [Drue], and she’d chased after […]
Book Review: 28 Summers
On a dreary, chilly, and drippy day this week, I snuggled in with Bitzie and Elin Hilderbrand‘s latest beach book, 28 Summers. It is dedicated to the late, great Dorothea […]
Book Review: The Invention of Wings
We sent you out there on behalf of abolition, not women. – Theodore Weld, The Invention of Wings The rights of women were perceived to be a “paltry grievance” by […]
Book Review: Hungry
Today is the 15th anniversary of my abusive, tyrannical father’s death. I’ve always loved the irony that I was liberated on Bastille Day! It has taken me six years to […]
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