The recent passing of Alice Munro, the respected and famous Canadian writer who won a Nobel Prize for Literature has created a rush on her books at the library and bookstores across the country. As…
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Jann Arden Shares Her Mother’s Journey With Alzheimer’s
There probably isn’t a baby boomer out there whose life has not been touched in some way at some time by someone with age-related dementia or Alzheimer’s. One of my former roommates has already passed…
Kristin Hannah’s THE WOMEN Is A Must-Read For Baby Boomers
As someone who is already a fan of books by New York Times best-selling author Kristin Hannah, I couldn’t wait for her newest release, The Women. It’s a story about the war in Vietnam during the…
Nina Stibbe Examines The True Meaning of Friendship
When I read three books in a row by the same author, then you can be assured I love her writing. After reading and reviewing her two diary-styled non-fiction books a couple of weeks ago…
Bridget Jones Is Not The Only Fun Diary To Peek Into
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding is one of the few diaries I’ve had the opportunity to peek into (even though it was fictional), but reading the inside story of other people’s lives is probably…
I Finally Found Something To Like About Chemistry
When I read Bonnie Garmus’s New York Times’ best-selling debut novel Lessons In Chemistry, it reminded me of the old Monty Python phrase, And now for something completely different. The story begins in the 1950s and it…