There’s always something comforting and somewhat validating about reading a book with places and times you can relate to. That satisfying coincidence happened on the first page of the first chapter of Liberty Street, a…
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Gisèle Pelicot Is Every Woman’s Hero. This Is Her Story
Imagine how you would react if you were suddenly jolted out of your normal, ordinary life by being informed by the police that your loved and trusted husband, for more than fifty years, and the…
The Calamity Club Is An Excellent Summer Read
It took seventeen years for Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help (and the movie of the same name), to publish her second novel, The Calamity Club, and it was worth the wait. I’ve been able…
The Call of The Klondike Still Echoes
There may not be a better form of reading escapism than a good, old, rootin’, tootin’ story of historical fiction set in the Klondike during the gold rush days in the late 1800s. The Rush…
Movie-makers Ignore Baby Boomers and Women At Their Peril
Briony Smith’s column Frail, frumpy and feeble, When will Hollywood stop failing women at the movies?, which appeared in the Toronto Star on May 10, 2025, had me jumping for joy. Finally, someone sees the movie…
I’m Having My “Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown”
Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones had their nineteenth nervous breakdown in 1966. I’m having mine now. Over the years, boomers have witnessed several recessions, interest rates in the high double-digits and rampant inflation when…