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...
Here we have the LOL, here we have my friends. Indeed, Cara (second from the left in the cute cap) chose our latest book, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons not only because she wanted to end on an upbeat, easy note, but because she thought reading...
Well, friends, it's been quite the read. Cutting for Stone proved to be an epic novel that spurred some outstanding conversation at the stunningly beautiful home of this book's hostess, Gail. A physician herself, Cutting for Stone--a medical story filled with such vivid description of surgery...
So, it's been a while. I have been, not only a reluctant reader, but a negligent blogger. When you write a book blog and you're not reading, you're not writing. I've not been in this position before...