Thank-you, Ladies on Literature! I hosted the inaugural meeting of the 2nd season at my home Wednesday night. While we were a small group of seven (half of our members were absent), we engaged in one of the most meaningful discussions we've ever experienced. And it's because...
Tonight we talk "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed. Yes, it's LOL's first meeting of our second season, chez moi! I'm so looking forward to seeing most of the Ladies on Literature and to discussing this well written memoir. Overall I enjoyed it. But like a number...
As the Ladies on Literature prepare to meet at my place this week to discuss our opening book, Wild, I find myself almost sad to be closing out this book--and particularly the blog--about it. Why, you ask? Is it because this book is so phenomenal I...
Even in the prologue to Wild, Cheryl Strayed adopts a somewhat cavalier attitude to embarking upon an epic journey: "A woman who walks alone in the wilderness for eleven hundred miles? I'd never been anything like that before. I had nothing to lose by giving...
It's not easy making a choice for book club. Of course we all want to make a selection that will be a brilliant read, highly entertaining, and most of all, make for excellent discussion. With so many superb books out there, the choices are endless...
Trying to get pregnant? Try picking up some erotic literature! Enough couples have reported becoming pregnant after reading mega bestseller, Fifty Shades of Grey, experts are predicting a "Grey" baby boom! On this week's Wed to the Med: Book may trigger baby boomlet | Bliss...
Think you need to pick up the pace in your fitness regime? Can't keep up with your kids? Recent studies show otherwise. According to the leading medical journal, the Lancet, Canadian parents are twice as fit as their kids. Check it out on this week's Wed...
As Anne Morrow Lindbergh opens her lovely book, Gift from the Sea, the reader is immediately drawn into the rhythm of the ocean, the gentle sounds of the sea slapping at the shore. On a rare vacation, alone, away from her many responsibilities as wife...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's beautiful book, Gift from the Sea, is a summer treasure. Every morning, as I sit upon my sunny deck, grateful for a little time alone, sipping sweet coffee, taking in stunning views of mountain and sky, I journal and read and reflect. Marking...
At a time when I pictured myself soaking up the sun, chugging diet Coke from a can (or better: sipping Gewurztraminer from a stemmed glass) and reading absolute rubbish, no one is more surprised than me, to find I have a basket of non-fiction books...