Final Gifts book

I’d leap out of my chair and go find my sister Christy to read her some snippets aloud from this book — all while getting choked up on tears. Author Maggie Callanan is a nurse specializing in end-of-life care. Her stories and insights come directly from her experiences in that field. It’s insightful and brings …

NYT Bestseller “Nudge”

My book club is diving into the NYT bestseller and winner of the Nobel prize in economics book “Nudge” by University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunnstein. The book draws on research in psychology and behavior economics to look at the underlying engineering of choice arcitecture. Am …

An Odyssey

Nearly finished with best-selling author Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey” It’s a memoir in which the author, a college professor who often teaches on the Greek classics, finds that his father enrolled in one of his courses. Specifically the course on Homer’s “The Odyssey.” An epic adventure unfolds in more ways than one, more than two …