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Top Ten Favorite Books of 2016

December 26, 2016

favorite books

Good morning, lovelies! Did everyone get what they wanted from Santa? If what you got is bookstore gift cards, then this post will help you spend them. It’s the end of 2016 and I’m back with my favorite books of the year. (Each title links to my review of the book) In previous years this has been two posts: Favorites and Favorite Debuts because I simply had too many book ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, favorite books, lists

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

November 23, 2016

salt sugar fat

  My timing for this review may be a bit off as tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a day of food, but Salt Sugar Fat is not about home cooked meals. Instead, it is a depressing tour of tour of the multitude of ways in which the food industry has duped the American consumer for the last 60 years. Author Michael Moss interviews former food industry executives and studies masses of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: food, health, Random House

Nonfiction November: My Year in Nonfiction

November 7, 2016

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  Anyone who knows me and what I like to read is probably rolling on the floor laughing right now because I don’t read nonfiction. Stop it! You’re hurting my feelings. I don’t consciously discriminate against it, but if faced with two books and one is fiction and one is not, I’m going to dive at the fiction. This is scientifically borne out in my reading stats for 2016: ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature, Non-fiction, Reading Tagged: books, history, lists, memoir, Russia

Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice after Serial

September 19, 2016

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  If you were one of the millions of people like me who were addicted to the podcast Serial then you may remember Rabia Chaudry. A family friend of the Syeds she is also a lawyer and has been a tireless advocate for Adnan since he was convicted in 2000 of murdering his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee. If Serial left you wanting to know more about Syed’s case then you need ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: American life, book clubs, murder, St. Martin's Press, true crime

Inventing the Rest of Our Lives by Susan Levine Braun

August 19, 2016

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Yesterday, I had a milestone-ish birthday. 55, which means I can no longer say I’m in my early 50s. Boo to that. I’m not generally one to find age markers to be difficult—I thought 40 was a blast, but this one, for whatever reason hit me harder than any other in awhile. I decided I really needed to let go of the self-doubt and irritation that’s been dogging me recently and jump ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: midlife

The Time in Between

June 10, 2016

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  This is the final review from my recent mental health reading and it was easily the most difficult because it’s non-fiction. The Time in Between is Nancy Tucker’s memoir about her life from the time she was a little girl until present day, with the focus on her teen years. Her life changes at age eleven, while attending a private girls’ school, which makes her insecure ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, Icon Books, memoir, mental health

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