Flow : the cultural story of menstruation

From: Rosalia Millan author: Stein, Elissa Flow : the cultural story of menstruation This book was such a brilliant idea, and the authors did a great job.  Flow tells the cultural history of the period and how women’s status and health care have changed over time. It’s written in a friendly, personable style to try [...]

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The Glass Castle

From Ellen Druda: I’m almost done listening to The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls.   It’s the true  story of a young girl and her siblings growing up in a dysfunctional family.  The kids are plucky and smart, but they are defeated at every turn to improve themselves by their space-cadet mother and alcoholic father.   I’m [...]

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Eat This, Not That

From Gina Scaglione: I read Eat This, Not That by David Zinczenko and love it.  It really puts into perspective what they put into our foods.  For instance, depending on where you are, you might actually want to eat four hamburgers than the salad.  But, I will not tell you which place that is.  You [...]

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Art of Learning

From Gina Scaglione: I read The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin.  He was the national chess champion and Push Hands champion as well.  He is actually a terrfic writer and never made me feel inferior to him as he writes about how to be the best.  I great self-help book.

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Thank God for Evolution

From Gina Scaglione: I stayed up late last night again to read Thank God for Evolution by Michael Dowd. I highly recommend this book to anyone contemplating religion in any way. From the doubters to the highly religious, this book has something for everyone. It actually helped me to realize where I belong, which I [...]

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Full Catastrophe Living

From Gina Scaglione: It’s been quite a while since my last review, and that’s because I just yesterday finally finished Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.  I began reading this book somewhere back at the end of July/beginning of August.  It was supposed to be my way of teaching myself to meditate.  Well, I [...]

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Candyfreak

From Rosalia Milan: Candyfreak by Steve Almond This book was extremely interesting. Steve Almond basically visits several factories that are owned and run by regional candy makers. The descriptions of the candy’s themselves and the people he meets are extremely honest and captivating. Many of the stories regarding his childhood and candy disputes between him [...]

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Spaghetti, Men, and Nancy Drew

From Rosalia Milan: I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci In this autobiography the author talks about her loves and their connections to food. The first chapter, devoted to her first real boyfriend, felt extremely rushed, and I remember thinking uh oh this is going to kind of suck. But the second [...]

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Art and Physics

From Ellen Druda: Art & Physics, by Leonard Shlain I heard about the author after his recent death on a BoingBoing blog post, and decided to give him a try.  I wasn’t disappointed.  Shlain spends most of the book supporting his thesis about artists expressing ideas about light, space, and time years before the physicists express the [...]

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Mommy Guilt & Thousand Splendid Suns

From Gina Scaglione: I recently finished Mommy Guilt by Julie Bort, Aviva Pflock and Devra Renner.  It was just the TLC I needed.  Prior to reading this self-help guide my middle name may as well have been Guilt.  However, after reading the quick read and completing the exercises I feel like a huge weight has [...]

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