50 best girlfriend getaways
Welcome back, dear readers. As I mentioned yesterday, I’m not traveling at the moment. I’m just spending some quality time at home with friends and family, working and trying to stay dry … it rained...
View Articlethe 69 greatest fiction travel books of all time
I love lists. Top 10 lists of the world’s best beaches; the best 100 movies of all time; New York City’s top 25 restaurants. I like running my way through these lists and seeing how many I can check...
View ArticleReading Now: Midnight’s Children
Fifteen years ago, my girlfriends and I started a book club. All avid readers, it was the perfect excuse for regular get-togethers that involved book discussions, tea and quality time together. Our...
View ArticleReading Now: The Dinner
This book was recommended to me by a friend. I read the back cover and was instantly intrigued. Two couples meet for dinner and while things start innocently enough, you know trouble’s brewing … and...
View ArticleReading Now: Sutton
I just finished reading Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer’s book Sutton (Hyperion, 2012) about bank robber Willie Sutton. Sutton (1901-1980) had an impressive 40-year career as one of America’s...
View ArticleReading Now: Testimony
I read Anita Shreve’s The Pilot’s Wife (Little, Brown and Company, 2001) 12 years ago. I enjoyed it enough and it put Anita Shreve on my radar. But in the years to come, none of the reviews of her new...
View ArticleSummer Reading: Linwood Barclay
Last summer, a girlfriend of mine mentioned that she’d just read a book by Linwood Barclay and my curiosity was instantly piqued. Growing up, my mom always read Barclay’s column in the Toronto Star and...
View Article50 best girlfriend getaways
Welcome back, dear readers. As I mentioned yesterday, I’m not traveling at the moment. I’m just spending some quality time at home with friends and family, working and trying to stay dry … it rained...
View ArticleReading Now: Midnight’s Children
Fifteen years ago, my girlfriends and I started a book club. All avid readers, it was the perfect excuse for regular get-togethers that involved book discussions, tea and quality time together. Our...
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