Tweet one of the very many bookshelves in our house When Amy tagged me several weeks ago with a meme about one’s top five books, and then Kristen wrote about her dream bookshelf, I decided it was time for me to think about this. It’s heroically difficult for me to name my favorite books, and [...]
Tweet I am delighted to be participating in a blog tour to celebrate the release of Kristen Brown’s book, The Happy Hour Effect: 12 Secrets to Minimize Stress and Maximize Life. Kristen, an author, entrepreneur, certified health coach, mother, and widow, has written an practical guide to reducing stress and increasing joy. Her book includes [...]
Tweet I loved this book, and I’m happy to offer a giveaway copy of it. I hope you will read my thoughts and then leave a comment – I will choose a winner on Sunday night. As I read Madeline Levine’s Teach Your Children Well I kept hearing Sweet Honey in the Rock in my [...]
Tweet A couple of people who commented on my Six Year post asked about what I am reading, both in terms of books and blogs. Books is the easier answer. I am currently reading Teach Your Children Well by Madeline Levine. I recently ready Amy Sohn’s Motherland and re-read Operating Instructions by the incomparable Anne [...]
Tweet The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker, is one of the most beautiful and thought-provoking books I have read in a long, long time. I read it on one of our flights to California this summer, and the story has echoed in my head ever since. On one hand, it explores a scary [...]
Tweet I have been a huge Jena Strong fan for a very long time, and I was delighted when I heard that she was releasing a book of poems, Don’t Miss This. I ordered it immediately. I tried to read it slowly, savoring Jena’s characteristically gorgeous words which somehow manage to be both as intimate [...]
Tweet Update: I’m happy that Catherine, of comment #19, won Priscilla’s book in my giveaway. Congratulations, Catherine – I can’t wait to hear how you like it! I’m thrilled to be participating in a blog party for Priscilla Warner‘s birthday. I read Priscilla’s book, Learning to Breathe, last year, and was immensely moved by it. [...]
Tweet As anyone who knows me will attest, reading is my favorite thing to do. Talking about books is a close second. We are spinning into that season that seems synonymous with reading, and I’m eager to know what is on your bedside table. Please share books you’ve recently read and loved, and what is [...]
Tweet Double Time is Jane Roper’s personal, hilarious, and thoughtful account of the first three years of life as a mother of twins. She starts at the beginning, with her more challenging than anticipated effort to get pregnant, makes us laugh out loud in the ultrasound room with her when she and her husband discover [...]
Tweet The Bread of Angels opens as Stephanie Saldana arrives in Damascus. She is a 27 year old running away from devastating losses in both her family and her love life. She comes to Syria on a Fulbright, after graduating from a master’s program at the Harvard Divinity School, trailing streamers of all that is [...]
