Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind
Wouldn’t you love to know what giants in the publishing world are reading for pleasure? The World’s Best Book Club was kick-started by one of these executives, and he highly […]
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Book Review: All Summer Long
Nobody writes a beach book like Dorothea Benton Frank, and this year’s All Summer Long will transport you from Manhattan to Sullivan’s Island and other haunts of the 1%. The plot […]
Book Review: The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
The Broadway play Hamilton has set me off on a frenzy of books about First Lady Louisa Adams (wife of John Quincy), Alexander Hamilton, and Julia Ward Howe (“Battle Hymn of […]
Book Review: A Girl’s Guide to Moving On
Debbie Macomber is back and better than ever! A Girl’s Guide to Moving On was inspired in part by Wayne Macomber’s need for sunshine. His wife reluctantly ~ at first […]
Book Review: Untied by Meredith Baxter
Meredith Baxter’s memoir, Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering, is a refreshingly candid examination of the cost of shame. Shame has been a powerful weapon of control since the days […]
Book Review: Look Who’s Back
Is it true that you admire Adolf Hitler? Only in the mirror in the morning. Timur Vermes, Look Who’s Back The World’s Best Book Club (WBBC) is reading HHhH by Laurent Binet and Look […]
Book Review: Brave Enough
Desperation is unsustainable. – Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough Cheryl Strayed is an abuse survivor akin to Grandma Gatewood. Her hike of the Pacific Coast Trail was featured in the book and […]
Happy New Year!
This year I was determined to be home for the holidays for the first time since I started my blog in 2009. With a little help from my friends, I was […]
Book Review: The Sound of Glass
You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad. – Karen White, The Sound of Glass Beachcombers treasure sea glass. Edith Heyward […]
Book Review: The Marriage of Opposites
Always pay heed to the woman who comes before you. If he’s treated her badly, he will treat you much the same. – Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites This is […]
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