Tears slip out of the corners of my eyes as I shut the back cover of this book. Am happy to know what end-of-life can be like. Its beautiful.
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 …
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 …
Dumbfounded book memoir
Enjoying this #read about growing up on the Upper East Side “Dumbfounded” from Crown Publishing. #funny #memoir
How To Avoid The Cutting Room Floor – Editor’s Advice For On-Camera Actors
Written by Emmy-winning editor Jordan Goldman, A.C.E. (editor on such shows as The Shield & Homeland) who takes you inside the cutting room and pulls back the curtain on how and why directors, showrunners, and editors decide whether your performance makes it on screen. A good friend of mine in Hollywood mentioned she had been …
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Buddy-up-and-read Volunteer Recognition night
Volunteer recognition night with the local librarian & my Buddy-up-and-read buddy. Buddy up and read is a really awesome program that I have gleaned so much from by volunteering to read with at my local library.
Good Read… When To Speak Up & When To Shut Up
After getting two chapters into this pocket-sized book, I shut it. Place it atop my will-get-to-it-sometime stack of books. It isn’t the quick fix magazine article “Five sure-fire tips to get your way” that I was hoping it would be. Nope. Instead it delves into gray areas of communication where the reader has to use …
Good Read… The Little Book of Perfumes (Cologne too.)
Wandering the shelves of the library this morning I glimpse Luca Turin’s latest addition to his series of perfume review books. The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics. I’ve read some of Luca’s work before and always bust out laughing from his sometimes snarky words. Not that it’s all acid, there’s some very beautiful …
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Good Read… Talk to the Hand
To me, the delight of people answering or making calls [in public places] is that they suddenly – and oblivious to the enforced eavesdropping – reveal enormous amounts about themselves, as if they had, under the influence of hypnosis, stood up on a table and started stripping, and just as suddenly, got down again, adjusted …
Good Read… Adventures Of A No Name Actor
Obviously Not Written By The Likes Of Zac Efron, Rachel Weisz, Or Claire Daines Nope. This book is penned by a name you haven’t heard of, but maybe have seen on a show if you’ve ever turned on a TV or loaded a show on your computer. What’s The Book About Chronicling his exploits in …