The Book: No Filter I recently finished reading No Filter, The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful by the famous former super-model Paulina Porizkova who was once the face of Estée Lauder. Porizkova was given…
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Two memoirs. A Gen-Xer and a baby boomer. Different stories. Different countries. Similar challenges.
Memoirs by women who have overcome adversity always rise to the top of my “To Read” list. I’ve just finished reading two books by very different women from different generations who share a common challenge….
Miriam Margolyes is a very naughty girl indeed!
Miriam Margolyes is a self-described short, fat, Jewish lesbian. She is also one of Britain’s most beloved actors and she’s eighty years old. Oh, the stories she tells in her new memoir This Much is…
3 more good reads for the dog days of summer
Now that we’re into the dog days of summer, I’ve been taking full advantage of my backyard gazebo to put my feet up and tuck into one good book after another. I’ve just finished three…
“Friends and Enemies” exposes how the other half lives, or Don’t cry for me, Barbara Amiel
You will need to allow plenty of time to read and absorb the contents of Barbara Amiel’s new memoir Friends and Enemies which was released earlier this month. Weighing in at a hefty 603 pages in…