One might assume that Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren would be filled with descriptions of unbridled sex and promiscuity. While those […]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim is based on an interesting and unusual […]
The Innocent Found Guilty
After reading two books this month dealing with unjustly convicted and incarcerated Americans,(one set in Nicaragua and the other in California) I found it disturbing to find that […]
More Than a Culinary & Travel Memoir
Paula Butturini’s culinary and travel memoir, Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy, is much different from the norm. She […]
Bikes, Boats, Buses & Trains
Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World by Seth Stevenson follows Stevenson and his girlfriend as they quit their jobs, give up their […]
The Grass is Not Always Greener as a Vanderbilt
This is the book for you if you’ve ever been jealous of someone born with a golden spoon in his or her mouth. Dead End Gene Pool: […]
Orange is the New Black
Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison graduated from Smith College in the early 1990s. Always a free […]
Paging Your Way Across the World
Even if you are not planning a trip in the future, you owe it to yourself to order these books and take the trip of a lifetime from the comfort of your favorite chair.
Farewell, Teacher Man
(Photo by Elke Wetzig courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) It was with great sadness that I read that Frank Mccourt, author of Angela’s Ashes, died. When […]
