by Laura | Jun 3, 2013
No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood by writer/actress/director/producer Henriette Mantel is an engaging collection of essays by her and 36 women writer friends who don’t have children. The honest and forthright stories by baby boomer women…...
by Laura | May 28, 2013
Who is an amazing man from the 19th century too many people don’t know about? Charles Knowlton. Now more will, thanks to this excellent biography, An Infidel Body-Snatcher and the Fruits of his Philosophy: The Life of Charles Knowlton by Dan Allosso. Knowlton was an...
by Laura | Apr 6, 2013
This quote by Raymond A. Moody Jr. M.D. Ph.D., author of Life After Life, made me pick up Eben’s Alexander’s M.D. Proof of Heaven: “Dr. Eben Alexander’s near-death experience is the most astounding I have read in more than four decades of studying this phenomenon....
by Laura | Apr 2, 2013
Being a big fan of Ashley Judd, I looked forward to reading this memoir. I quickly realized it would be unlike many memoirs about famous actors. Like many memoirs of the famous, we do learn about her family life growing up – which was not an easy one. But most of what...
by Laura | Mar 15, 2013
If you delve into personality theory, you inevitably run into psychologist Carl Jung’s theory of introverts and extroverts. One thing you won’t learn, however, is how our society has come to value the extroverts over the introverts. In Quiet, author Susan Cain does...
