It is difficult to remember what it was like to read this book for the first time.It is also difficult to imagine a book where each new reading provides so much more illumination into the main character and his personality. I can remember finding Catcher to be funny the first time I read it.I now [...]
What do breathing, eating, sleeping, loving, soothing, enhancing, and dancing accomplish? They are the seven things you can do to change your life for the younger (and better).
Recent scientific research indicates that by paying attention to your immune system, you can control the aging process. Simply by following the seven steps put forth in this [...]
Turning 50 this year, I started to notice that my so called “friends” were pointedly asking me when I was going to begin coloring my hair.It never occurred to me, before reading Anne Kreamer’s wonderful book, to ask them why they were coloring their hair.Interestly, many of my friends were aware of Ms. Kreamer’s book, [...]
How trustworthy do you find a reviewer who loves a particular author’s work, praises it regularly, and then reviews that writer’s next book with predictable kisses, cheers, and thrown rose petals? I admit that I am usually that exact reviewing type. If I like someone’s work, I’m more likely to review that same person in [...]
Review of “Happiness: A guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill” by Matthieu Ricard. Published by Little Brown.
What a joy to find such an intelligent and creative approach to the universal quest for happiness and well-being! Matthieu Ricard begins by examining our definitions of happiness and then leads us on a journey that explores the [...]
The central figure of Kostova’s impressive novel is a gifted artist, Robert Oliver, who is arrested when he attacks a painting hanging in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, “Leda”. In the painting a mortal woman is ravished by Zeus in the form of a swan, a theme that is woven through the [...]
I absolutely love dystopian, end-of-life-as-we-know-it, type of novels.George Orwell’s 1984 (Signet Classics) and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale happen to be two of my favorites.This novel started with great promise…And then it fell short.Very short.The novel is about Wisty and Whit Allgood, two teenage siblings who under the duress and kidnapping by a New Order, [...]