Paradise in Plain Sight (Book Review)
This is written by a female Zen priest about the metaphors for life that she’s gleaned from her Japanese garden.
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Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom (Book Review)
This beautifully written, Pulitzer prize winning, detailed, and very long biography is a tour de force.
No Crumbs Left (Cookbook Review)
This book can take staple meals in your house from ho hum to marvelous. Check out and make her magic elixirs!
Mastery (Book Review)
This book will make you see that follow-through is the key component to mastery, and that is within everyone’s reach. Mastery is not a matter of talent, but one of learned and cultivated attention.
Book Review: Handling the Truth
I enjoyed this book and found it gives a good introduction to writing in the genre of memoir. The author has written several memoirs and is a professor of the subject at
Book Review: Spy in a Little Black Dress
This book was a pleasant surprise. I found it on the library’s new book shelf, and didn’t expect to like it as well as I did. It is the second in a series and you may wish to begin with the first, titled Paris to Die For, which turns out to be well liked too. … Read more
Book Review: The Lawgiver
I’m a Herman Wouk fan from as far back as the 70’s. I loved this recent light work written in his nineties in the form of correspondence – email, fax, skype, texting, etc. Oh, to be able to be so “with it” at such an age! The title refers to the story of Moses, which … Read more
Book Review: Imagine- How Creativity Works
After reading this book on the latest science regarding creativity, it is no miracle that I’m creative. I daydream, meditate, and make connections between disparate fields.