I’ve been thinking a lot about bookshelves lately.  I just recently moved into a new apartment.  I don’t know about you, but when I move, the first thing I must do to get that wonderful “this is home” feeling is pull the books out of boxes.  In a strange way, this is more important even […]

The President’s Secret Plan, The Bomb, and what the French Never Knew…Legerdemain is a real life story of a former US Air Force undercover operative in the 1950s. James Heaphey gives us first hand insight into the behind-the-scenes treachery and atrocities that accompany geopolitical operations. The author does not just give us insight into […]

Recently, I had the pleasure of reading A Life Less Convenient by Jennifer Burke. I have never read a book that lays out the struggles of an illness as insightful as A Life Less Convenient (ALLC) does. Jennifer Burke deserves a great deal of accolades for putting together this magnificent journey into the love […]

It has been a long time since I’ve read a memoir. Most memoirs that I’ve read in the past are the life and times of various authors through history. Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber, Maya Angelou, to name a few. The two years I spent reading memoirs was spent studying […]

I remember going to the library every Saturday morning for the children’s reading group, and I remember picking out books that had a cool gold seal on the cover (Newbery Book Award winners). I always thought how special children must be because we got the section at the front of the library by the entrance. […]

‘The Hakawati’ is a plethora of tales of heroism, magic, death, victory, love, sex, redemption and lies, and just about everything else you can imagine woven into one story about one guy and his family roots. The main character travels back to his childhood home in Beirut to stand watch at his father’s death […]

I used to think the Virginia Slim tag line “We’ve come a long way, Baby!” was empowering and celebrated the achievements women have made in the last hundred years in gaining equality.  Women can own property, women can vote; women can be working mothers or stay at home mothers without society telling them which path […]

I’ve been pondering book jackets for the last few months. I’ve seen more jackets in the last few months than a model for Burlington Coat Factory does in the length of a ten season contract. My reflections have more or less been about why its assumed consumers need elaborate, more complex visual aids to […]