Category: You Decide

Both Olivia Newton-John and Nadia Owusu have written memoirs. Newton-John’s memoir is entitled Don’t Stop Believin’. If you were a Grease fan, you will want to find out how ‘Sandy’ is doing post-Grease. Plaguing health issues have not daunted her spirit, and she has become a serious advocate for cancer research and treatment in Melbourne, Australia. Her memoir will help your spirits soar. Nadia Owusu

The Washington Post recently published a piece entitled “10 Books to Read in January”. Knowing that most of us will not read 10 books in one month, I have picked out a few for you to choose from IF you are caught up on your book club reading!! “The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine,” by Janice

Book Bub recently published photos of artfully organized bookshelves. If you have resolved to redo your bookshelves or add a new one, take a look at some of my favorites from the Book Bub feature:  Vintage Display Simply Arranged Book Aspirations Still Life with Books Time to Unwind  No Wasted Space Glorious Books

Psychologists and psychiatrists are reporting as much as four times more cases of depression since March of 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. Much of the increased stress and depression stems from people losing their jobs, losing their savings and, worse yet, losing family members and friends due to death from Covid. Those lucky enough not to have experienced drastic losses are nonetheless suffering from

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Last Sunday, October 4, 2020, many pets were ‘blessed’ in churches around the world on what is known as the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. St. Francis is the patron saint of animals (as well as ecology and merchants), and he died on October 4, 1230, in Assisi, Italy. Buried in the crypt with St. Francis is a little-known woman named Giacoma dei Settesoli.

This coming year, whatever book club meetings may look like, people will be discussing The Splendid and The Vile, Erik Larson’s latest narrative nonfiction. The purpose of this post is NOT to talk about The Splendid and The Vile but rather to look at Erik Larson as an author and to review a few of his other books. In a recent interview appearing in the

No, ‘The Bookshelf Detective’ is not the title of a new book. It is a person the New York Times has designated to examine the bookshelves of people while they are being interviewed remotely from home–sometimes on talk shows or news hours or the like. I can only suppose that these ‘detectives’ take still shots and enlarge them enough to see the titles of books

Two views on This Tender Land If you expect “This Tender Land” to live up to expectations set by “Ordinary Grace”, prepare to be disappointed. It lacks the intriguing mystery, the rich character development, the skilful plotting, and the thought-provoking themes of “Grace”. Better to turn to his Cork O’Connor mystery series, which follow a police detective and his family through page-turning crime solving in