Learn how to grow old gracefully with two excellent books. “You: Staying Young,” by Oprah’s favorite doctors, Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., is an owner’s manual to your body, complete with a 14-day plan to help jump-start your healthy journey into the future. “Younger Next Year for Women” offers solid advice…
Grab a cup of tea, sink into the sofa and get lost in “10 Poems to Change Your Life.” Convinced that “Great poetry can alter the way we see ourselves,” Roger Housden has compiled an eclectic collection of poems from a who’s who of poets including Mary Oliver, Galway Kinnell and Pablo Neruda. Housden uses…
The original chick lit, Persephone Books boasts an eclectic collection of 70 forgotten or neglected twentieth-century classics by, for and about women that are timeless, thought-provoking and worth a prominent place on every serious book lover’s shelf. New editions come out quarterly and (re)introduce important authors like Katherine Mansfield and Judith Viorst We dream of…
Start organizing your books! If the thought of categorizing them on your shelves is just too daunting, try cataloging them online at www.librarything.com. A bibliophile’s dream, this highly innovative site proves that libraries really are cool places to meet fascinating people.
Totally hooked by classics like “The Age of Innocence” and “The House of Mirth,” we already knew literary master Edith Wharton had substance. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Wharton nailed the hypocrisy of upper class conventionality with her scathing portraits of the turn-of-the-century New York society into which she was born as…
