The May Amazon Kindle First selection is Anat Talshir’s “About the Night.” Here is a description of the book. On a hot summer day in 1947, on a grandstand overlooking Jerusalem, Elias and Lila fall deeply, irrevocably in love. Tragically, they come from two different worlds. Elias is a Christian Arab living on the eastern…
This month’s Amazon Prime Kindle First selection for the PW Book Club is Roger Pulvers, “Star Sand.” This book is a war fiction novel that takes place during World War II. Here’s the Amazon blurb: In 1958, a diary is found in a cave on the small Japanese island of Hatoma. Alongside it are the…
For those wanting to participate in this month’s book club discussion for “The Light of the Fireflies,” you can find the discussion HERE. Feel free to share your thoughts of the book on the Facebook page. Since this is the first book club, we’re making this open to anyone who’s read the book to comment…
The first official PW Book Club Kindle First selection is “The Light of the Fireflies” by Paul Pen. Here’s a synopsis of the book from Amazon.com: A haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places. For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents,…
One of the resolutions I make every year is to read 52 books a year. At the end of last year, as I started following more and more bibliophiles on Instagram, I was shocked to see that some people read over 100 books by the end of the year. I could never imagine doing that…
As part of a new series this year, I wanted to share with you how I am decluttering my life. This is a five month series. For those who want to take the steps to begin decluttering your life, count on this being a six month life plan to commit to this year. You’ll need…
Resolutions. We all make them. Some try to say they tossed their resolutions out before the ball even dropped. Then there are those who realize that they need a change. Very few stick to those resolutions just a day into the new year. Others go two to three weeks into the new year. Some see…
September begins a new season for me and this is what I have planned for the site. Why is September the start of a new season? Well, consider it a little like going back to school. Each new school year is the start of a whole new you. That’s what I always loved about the…
The summer is starting to wind down. With only three weekends left, many are running off to get that one last vacation in before the fall arrives. For me, June, July and August are my months for vacation, which means taking a bit of a break from writing and the blogs. September is when I’m back…
If there’s any book you need to pick up this summer, let “Circling the Sun: A Novel“ from Paula McLain be at the very top of that list. If you’ve read “The Paris Wife,” you already know how spectacular the story was. “Circling the Sun” is even better. Like “The Paris Wife,” the main character…
I’m just coming off of a very long vacation, so I’m very behind in posting up content. It doesn’t mean I wasn’t working in some way or another. It does mean I was able to find some time to catch up on a lot of reading material. The first book I’m going to share is…
Book Review – Like My Father Always Said…: Gruff Advice, Sweet Wisdom, and Half-Baked Instructions on How to Fix Your Stuff and Your Life, by Erin McHugh Just in time for Father’s Day, Erin McHugh’s “Like My Father Always Said…” is a collection of sayings from fathers that McHugh gathered after creating a similar book for…
Ok, everybody..don’t kill me for asking this, but I need some help with a summer project I’m working on. I’ve enlisted a couple of friends to help me, but I thought I would see if by posting something this would get more responses. I was Googling the ‘greatest love stories of all time’ and came…
I just finished reading “The Septembers of Shiraz” by Dalia Sofer. It really made me think a lot about religion, privileges and circumstances. I’ve learned over the past few years that it is difficult to be friends with people that are not in the same class as you financially. The main reason has a lot…
