My Life with Bob Author: Pamela Paul Pamela Paul is my a.k.a., my twin soul, my non-imaginary imaginary friend. For I too kept a BOB with all thin books I had ever read in it, a long list of my life. Pamela’s jewel is her intimate manner of allowing us into her Room with a View, her book of books, her life as a rampant bibliophile. The editor of the New York Times Book Review, Pamela Paul has given us a dose of her life for 28 years as she carried BOB (book of books) from high school, ... continue reading...
My Life with Bob
Book review of: If I Forget You
If I Forget You Author: Thomas Christopher Greene Henry Gold and Margot Fuller fill the pages of If I Forget You poignantly, as only two star crossed lovers can. Henry and Margot meet as students at elite Bannington College; they are from entirely different worlds. Henry, a talented poet, comes from a working class Jewish family in Providence, Rhode Island; and Margot is the beloved daughter of a very wealthy WASP family with a summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. Although with a touch of ... continue reading...
4 Ways Marriage, Divorce And Do-Overs Can make you $$$
4 Ways Marriage, Divorce And Do-Overs Can Increase Your Social Security Check In a world of IRAs, bonds, annuities and investment property, one retirement benefit often gets overlooked, or not discussed at all, by some financial advisers: Social Security. “In retirement, you need to create as much fixed, guaranteed income as you can,” says Tony Perrone, president and founder of the Estate Planning Group and author of I Didn’t Know I Could Do That: 9 Financial Strategies That Can Save or ... continue reading...
Gumbo Love – deliciousness abounds
GUMBO Love (Recipes for Gulf Coast Cooking, Entertaining, and Savoring the Good Life) Author: Lucy Buffet To be a good cook, you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating. Julia Child Coastal Southern food and Lucy Buffett go hand in hand. Reading Lulu’s Kitchen, Lucy’s first cookbook was like being with a friend chatting over coffee with stunning pictures about and a salty breeze in the foreground. Gumbo Love is more of the same: Lucy’s life, anecdotes, ... continue reading...
Grief Cottage – a review
Grief Cottage Author: Gail Godwin As Gail Godwin is one of my favorite authors, I expected wonderful, and that is what I got. Grief Cottage wraps around its protagonist, 11 year old Marcus, like a fog coming in off the ocean, winding and twisting, soothing and terrorizing. A desolate cottage, a desolate child sent to live a with a desolate great aunt on a South Carolina island, and a ghost all combine to produce a forceful and touching portrait of resilience and love. Grief Cottage provokes a ... continue reading...
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