... the little marks that use their influence...

 

Book Review for "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss.

TCL's #6Degress of Separation for July 3, 2021.

 

This month we start with "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" by Lynne Truss.

Intimate Essays.

 

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

TCL's #6Degrees of Separation for March 6, 2021.

 

From "Phosphorescence" by Julia Baird to "The Beginner's Goodbye" by Anne Tyler!

Snippets of Genius – #ShortStorySunday

 

Book Review for "Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde" by Robert Ross

#6Degrees of Separation for December 5, 2020.

 

From “Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" by Judy Blume to "Mastering the Art of French Eating" by Ann Mah.

No Holds for the Bard!

Book review for "Shakespeare: The World as Stage" by Bill Bryson.

Fatherhood and its Flaws.

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

Photos of Female Fighters.

Book Review for “Women on the Front Lines: Inside the Combat Units of the Israeli Army” by Debbie Zimelman.

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):

The Journey Begins Again

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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? 

My Top Five (or more) Books of 2017

My Top Five (or more) Books of 2017

Guest Author Post by Roz Morris: Out of sight, but not out of mind

Out of sight, but not out of mind

by Roz Morris

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

Guest Author Post: Shoshanah Shear on "Healing Your Life Through Activity"

The Story behind Healing Your Life Through Activity - An Occupational Therapist's Story

by Shoshanah Shear

Travels for the Mind or for the Body?

Book Review for "On Trying to Keep Still" by Jenny Diski

The Sound of Reading

Listening to Audio Books