Tales of a Female Nomad

by Donna | Jul 6, 2010 | Nonfiction, Other

Rating:  Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World, by Rita Golden Gelman. Three Rivers Press (2001), 306 pages. If you love meeting new people to the extent that for you the entire point of traveling is to talk to strangers, then this book will...

Bonobo Handshake

by Cindy | Jun 23, 2010 | Animals, Nonfiction

Rating:  Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo, by Vanessa Woods. Gotham Books (2010), 278 pages. Bonobo Handshake has the kind of cover that is impossible for animal lovers to resist: darling bonobo baby in the arms of an equally...

The Idle Parent

by Donna | Jun 16, 2010 | Nonfiction, Other

Rating:  The Idle Parent: Why Laid-back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids, by Tom Hodgkinson. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin (2010), 251 pages. The Idle Parent is getting a fair amount of press right now, which is a good thing because I don’t know how much...

Enduring Grace

by Cindy | Jun 11, 2010 | Nonfiction, Other

Rating:  Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, by Carol Lee Flinders. HarperOne (1993), 272 pages. The contemplative, mystical branch of Catholicism has always held great appeal for me in that its followers are attempting to actually...

Committed

by Cindy | May 31, 2010 | Nonfiction, Other

Rating:  Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, by Elizabeth Gilbert.  Viking (2010), 285 pages. The movie adaptation of Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love will be opening in theaters this August. It is still May as I write this, yet the cover from the book...

Finding Oz

by Donna | May 22, 2010 | Nonfiction, Other

Rating:  Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, by Evan I. Schwartz. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2009), 322 pages. In many respects this is a biography of L. Frank Baum, with immensely enjoyable stories about his family history,...