Hiding in the security of all things books, with some movies and tv - occasionally food...
How did the time sneak up on me so fast? Julie, from Booking Mama, created a wonderful challenge to host – all about the rediscovery of classic teenage fare, and I hope she hosts a part II so that I can redeem myself a little! But more on that later. Shelf Discovery, by Lizzie Skurnick is [...]
Just before Aarti from Booklust launched the Spotlight Series, which I love, with Chris and My Friend Amy, I discovered her blog. I can’t remember what it was that bought me there, maybe it was seeing her comment on another blogs or maybe it was the feature that she had going on at the time, [...]
35-year-old yoga instructor, graduate degree candidate and Chicagoan, Robyn Okrant, sets out to follow all of the instructions that Oprah Winfrey issues on her show, website and magazine for one year. Okrant proposes to investigate what living Oprah’s billionaire lifestyle will have on ardent followers with average and middle class incomes. Anything that comes out [...]
Michael Everett is grieving the loss of his wife Hannah, whose death from Stage 4 ovarian cancer destroyed the foundation of his life and the plans made of happily ever after for himself and his wife. Knowing that he would wallow and resist moving on after her death, Hannah entrusts her brother Richard with a [...]
Recently, Serena, who writes the blog Savvy Verse and Wit, was a guest on That’s How I Blog! A poetry enthusiat, Serena chose a book of poetry for us to read. Well, really, I chose it. She suggested three books, and the topic of the one that I finally picked seemed to be the most accessible. It [...]
Last year I read Seven, by Jacqueline Leo and was intrigued by what she had to say about multi-tasking – the ways that it can re-wire your brain, and how the majority of people of a certain age aren’t even equipped for it in the first place. I also read an article in Scientific American [...]
Bess Southerns can remember a time when the old religion was practiced, when she was young and beautiful, food was more plentiful and everyone was just a little bit more prosperous. As an older woman she has seen England torn between Catholicism’s practices and rituals of the old, and the new and more austere Protestant [...]
In An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott, Polly Milton visits her wealthy cousins in the city over the holidays and stays over the course of a few months. A country girl, her mother has raised her with many simple and wholesome virtues, preparing the girl to become a woman who cares about not only [...]
Last night I was chatting with Brooke from the Bluestocking Guide about books and her blog on That’s How I Blog! and I realized that she is the 25th blogger to appear on the show, and that when I chat with Philip (or King Rat) from Rat’s Reading, he will be my 26th guest, and [...]
