Intimate Essays.

 

Book Review of "Conversations with My Body: Essays on my Life as a Jewish Woman" by Elana Sztokman.

Fatherhood and its Flaws.

Book Review for “Things My Son Needs to Know About the World” by Fredrik Backman.

My Top 5 Favorite Books of 2018

2018: The year of the “only by a whisker” books.

Yes, the time has come once again for me to give you all my roundup of my favorite books published over this past year. I have to warn you however, I’m going to cheat a tiny bit with my non-fiction book this year. See, although this book was originally published in 2017 in the UK, I think it deserves to be on this list, because the majority of my readers (who live outside the UK) could only get hold of it in 2018. That said, while there were fewer books that got a full five stars from me this year, the quality of these books – be it the writing or the content of these stories – was such that it was very hard for me to rank them for this list; each one edged out the next by a whisker. So here you go, in descending order (for now. I reserve the right to change the order and/or add the book I'm reading as of this writing, if it measures up):

Continuing to be

Book Review for "I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death" by Maggie O’Farrell 

Q&A with Eric Houston, author of The Lost Artist: Love Passion War (Part 1)

I recently heard about Eric Houston's memoir "The Lost Artist: Love Passion War (Part 1)" and was immediately intrigued. While I couldn't fit this book into my reading list, I decided instead to feature this work here, by asking him one question. Here's his answer to:

What was one of the most interesting experiences you had when researching this book? 

The Guestbook Spy

Book Review for "Not Quite Lost: Travels without a Sense of Direction" by Roz Morris.

Now You're an Immigrant!

Book Review for "Chutzpah & High Heels: The Search for Love and Identity in the Holy Land" by Jessica Fishman

The Scale of a Family

Book Review for "Moonglow" by Michael Chabon

Depths in simplicity

Book Review for "My Name is Lucy Barton" by Elizabeth Strout

That which was gone for those that remain

Book Review for "The Living" by Léan Cullinan

Get Kissed by Kate and her Stories!

Book Review for "Me: Stories of My Life" by Katharine Hepburn

An Occupied Island and Unusual Occupations

 Book Review for "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

A Taste for French Gusto

Book Review for "Mastering the Art of French Eating" by Ann Mah

A Poetic Memoir of Ondaatje's visits to Sri Lanka

Book Review for "Running in the Family" by Michael Ondaatje