Book Reviews

Wise Messages:  “Audacious Aging” with the subtitle of “Age Audaciously as you Live Audaciously” recently crossed my desk.  Editor Stephanie Marohan has compiled 40 people’s life experiences: it’s a great grab bag of doctors, researchers, writers, singers, actors, spiritualists and she’s asked them for their secrets on aging. Some people’s thoughts are two pages long,...
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This is possibly the most delightful book I’ve read in years.  Set in London, it spans the time period from Jan. 8th, 1946 to September 17th 1946, with a summer setting in Guernsey. Through a series of letters from author, to publisher, to best friend, to the author’s research project which leads her to...
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I just finished (well, I didn’t finish it) the recent Grisham book entitled “The Appeal”. It has to be the most irritating book I’ve read in a long time. Not a new thought in it. It’s “Bonfires of the Vanities” meets “Erin Brokovich”. Grisham rehashes Brokovich’s story with Krane Chemical and the slimy...
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Many, many books line our shelves about dysfunctional families, heck that’s what most novels are about when you boil it all down. Angst (Jonathan Franzen “The Corrections”), John Irving’s roller coaster novels, the serious Jane Austin – well stop here, if you are a Jane Austin fan - “The Spellman Files” are...
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