What do Olivia Newton-John and Nadia Owusu have in common?
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
Sandcastle Book Club recap
The Sandcastle Book Club met via Zoom on January 11, at 1:00. Madeleine Kaye facilitated a lively discussion of Big Lies in a Small Town, by Diane Chamberlain. Over 20 members tuned in. After listening to a podcast in which the author was interviewed, Kaye was able to offer unique insight into features of the book. One book club member had read all of Chamberlain’s
Download a free book!
Professor Paula Feldman has made me aware of an opportunity to download a free book. Go to bibliovault.org for details on the book and how to download it to your devise. The name of the book is They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer. The current edition was published in 2017, but the initial publish date was 1956. Well received by critics, the book
Conservancy Book Review 5
Water and the Complexity of Environmental Experience The Wonder of Water: Lived experience, policy and practice 247 pages Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Editor In this slim volume, the editor has gathered twelve essays, framed by poems that explore the essential relationship we have with water. Contributors provide statistics, research data, analysis of current policies related to the containment and treatment of water and, perhaps most interestingly,
New books that bookclubs need to consider for next year’s list
Penguin Random House has suggested that book clubs look at new books for next year’s reading list. The following are a few that looked interesting to me. The Kitchen Front From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. Klara and the Sun by
Interesting comment on Gupta
Submitted by member Madeleine Kaye on January 13, 2021 I recently watched an interview with Dr. Gupta about his new book, which he found time to write while doing his day jobs — performing brain surgeries and acting as chief medical correspondent for CNN. A couple of things stood out: he said we should think of sitting as the new smoking … that sitting is
Ward off dementia and memory loss
No, this isn’t a plug for a new elixir or an on-line mental exercise. This blog entry introduces you to Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s newest book Keep Sharp. If you think Gupta’s name or face looks familiar, it’s because you may have seen him on CNN. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is CNN’s Emmy Award–winning chief medical correspondent and the host of the acclaimed podcast Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction.
Reader responds to Hurston story
Thanks to blog member Margaret Boone for her comments on Hurston’s work. My Atlanta book club read Their Eyes Were Watching God soon after it came out in the late 70’s and it was very interesting and well written. I still remember some of Hurston’s images and turns of phrase. Barracoon is a compilation of her interviews with Cudjo and does not read like a
Happy Belated Birthday
January 7 was author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston’s birthday. She died in 1960 in a welfare home in Florida and was buried in an unmarked grave nearby. She wrote during the Harlem Renaissance, but her work was not well received by Black critics at the time. Her best known novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was first published in 1937 but had gone out