December 2016 Book Recommendations Erich Segal’s, LOVE STORY; Very young, potent love; very young, potent death. Tom Wolfe’s, THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES; the... Read More
November 2016 Book Recommendations Carol Burnett’s, ONE MORE TIME: A MEMOIR; from near poverty in San Antonio, to Lucille Ball-like success in television, movies,... Read More
October 2016 Book Recommendations John Irving’s, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP; the intricately intersecting lives of an illegitimate son and his feminist mother. Joan... Read More
September 2016 Book Recommendations Truman Capote’s, THE GRASS HARP; a boy and two elderly women observe life–from a tree. Dr. Seuss’s, THE CAT IN... Read More
August 2016 Book Recommendations Edith Wharton’s, A SON AT THE FRONT; a novel about how World War I affects an American family living in... Read More
Independence Day Reading List For Adults JOHN ADAMS by David McCullough THOMAS JEFFERSON’S CRÈME BRÛLÉE by Thomas J. Craughwell... Read More
Independence Day Reading List For Kids LIKE A RIVER: A Civil War Novel by Kathy Cannon Wiechman BLUE BIRDS by Caroline... Read More
July 2016 Book Recommendations Betty Rollins’s, LAST WISH; the author of FIRST, YOU CRY, helps her terminally ill mother die. CALL ME ANNA; THE... Read More
Your Summer 2016 Reading List 1. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead 2. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 3. Forever by Judy... Read More
June 2016 Book Recommendations Calvin Coolidge’s, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE; the 30th President’s life story. Thomas J. Craughwell’s, THOMAS JEFFERSON’S CREME BRULEE; During... Read More
Books For Mother’s Day 2016 Nancy Friday’s, MY MOTHER/MY SELF: THE DAUGHTER’S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY Herman Wouk’s, MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR Anne Tyler’s, BACK WHEN WE WERE... Read More
May 2016 Book Recommendations Barbara Walters’, HOW TO TALK WITH PRACTICALLY ANYBODY ABOUT PRACTICALLY ANYTHING; the art of the interview from the woman who... Read More