by Laura | Aug 26, 2016
This book will hit your heart and mind, hard. Author Katy Butler has written a moving and informative memoir that will stick with you and inspire contemplation. In Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, we intimately go with Katy on her...
by Laura | Jul 27, 2016
Shortly after my Q&A with author Gloria Bowman, her novel, Human Slices finally made it to the top of my reading stack. But if you follow my Book Review Corner, my stack is all nonfiction, right? There are exceptions, to be sure. Human Slices: A Love Story...
by Laura | May 31, 2016
I have followed the work of journalist and author Peggy Orenstein over the years, and learned a lot from her, particularly her books, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Schoolgirls. Her latest, Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape is no exception....
by Laura | May 3, 2016
~ Review by Julia Holladay ~ As a Midlife Makeover and Life Transitions Coach, I was eager to read Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife. With 10,000 Baby Boomers retiring in our country daily, there are a lot of...
by Laura | Apr 27, 2016
I recently learned of what I could tell is a very moving book about baby elephants that have been orphaned as a result of poachers slaughtering their parents for their ivory. And indeed it is. Melanie Davis of my book review team writes this review of the book:...