Good friend, Greta Boris, self-published a book called The Wine and Chocolate Workout“. Wine puts me to sleep and chocolate gives me migraines, but I wanted to support my writer buddy so asked if I could read it, maybe host her on WordDreams. I sat outside in my backyard, eating my lunch under a California … Continue reading
Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 by Margaret Mead My rating: 5 of 5 stars View all my reviews If you didn’t read my last week’s post here, you may wonder why I am so excited about Margaret Mead’s decades-old book, Letters From the Field. Even if you read me last week, you may wonder–I think … Continue reading
Margaret Meade was born in 1901, a time when a woman’s place wasn’t doing field research in island jungles. That didn’t matter to her a wit when she went to Samoa at the age of twenty-three to study the life of the residents. Turned out, she had an excellent eye for decoding what she saw. … Continue reading
I read a lot of books. Some are part of my Amazon Vine gig. Some are research for whatever my current WIP. Some are just for fun. Sometimes I stumble onto a real gem. That’s what I found in aspiring new author, Catherine Larose’s new memoir (or ‘femoir’ as Cat calls it) Any Color But … Continue reading
