Was She Married to a Stranger?
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Three people mentioned Belle Burden’s Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage to me in the last few weeks. That seemed like the universe whispering. I read…
Ann Tashi Slater has written an unusual and effective hybrid of memoir and self-help called Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent…
Sybil Van Antwerp – our heroine – is the kind of neighbor you might like, or might not. She’s smart, retired, divorced, and keeps to…
I thought I had possibly read enough novels about World War II. I stand corrected. One of my book clubs selected The Director, by Daniel…
“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp; but which, if we sit down quietly, may alight upon us.” —Nathaniel…
Given the state of affairs in Nashville – a heady brew (or frozen mix?) of fatigue, frustration, and relief, for some – it seems the…
The world is broken and sparkling. My friends, displaced from their homes, tell me first about the trees – bending and breaking under the…
Winter Storm Fern has disrupted life for approximately 230 million people in the United States. C.S. Lewis and Oliver Burkeman have a few things…
Seems like everyone I know is buzzing about Theo of Golden by Allen Levi or The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. They’re on my list! But…