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Next Level by Stacy Sims

November 12, 2025

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In 2025 more than 1 BILLION women worldwide will be experiencing menopause. How’s that for a book review opening? That means all of its stages whether it’s peri, menopause, or post. For author Stacy Sims this is something that’s been ignored for far too long and that she’s been researching for decades. She’s got her PhD in physiology as well as in nutrition and she’s published ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: health, women

The Next Day

August 6, 2025

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Nonfiction has not been rewarding for me this year. My guess is the petulant part of my brain feels that it is already working too hard to process this country’s current reality and has no room for more information. But then I discovered The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward by Melinda French Gates and while the book’s title did not specifically talk to me, the ... Read More...

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Careless People: A Memoir

June 3, 2025

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Careless People is the memoir from Sarah Wynn-Williams who worked at Facebook from 2011-2017 as the global public policy director. A former diplomat and lawyer she joined believing they needed someone with an understanding of foreign diplomacy. She was hired, but for a time, no one knew what to do with her, as Mark Zuckerberg was still plucking the American low-lying fruit of ... Read More...

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From Here to the Great Unknown

January 24, 2025

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Those of us outside looking in, mired in our everyday lives, tend to mythologize celebrities and what their lives look like. The greater the star the larger they loom. This is even true for the children of the famous and in that realm, Elvis Presley’s daughter was tabloid fodder from the day she was born. Lisa Marie died last year, but had started writing a memoir with the help ... Read More...

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Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

November 11, 2024

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  I certainly can’t speak for all of you, but I’m still adrift this week trying to deal with feelings of disbelief and dread. I have a tremendous need for comfort in my reading and thankfully, I found it from one woman who on the surface may have appeared shy and self-effacing, but who has lived her life by “jumping off cliffs”. I’m talking about Ina Garten, cookbook ... Read More...

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Rabbit Heart

September 11, 2024

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But doubting our terror is what we’ve been trained to do. Imagine being eight years old and awakened on what should be a normal school morning by your father and older brother sitting on the side of your bed. They tell you that your mother has been kidnapped and your father cries. This is where the memoir Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story begins and the ... Read More...

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