The Lost Symbol Is Here... In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world’s most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling — a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown’s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels,...

Let The Great World Spin... Colum McCann has worked exquisite magic with Let the Great World Spin, a novel of electromagnetic force that defies gravity. It’s August 1974, a summer when Watergate and the Vietnam War make the world feel precarious. A stunned hush pauses New York City as a man on a cable walks repeatedly between the World Trade Center towers. This extraordinary feat becomes the touchstone for ten stories that briefly submerge...

Marley & Me...  John Grogan hit a major heart string & jack pot when he decided to write a book about the loveable ti rant Marley. Marley was Johns Yellow male Lab, that gave him love & a wonderful story. I loved this book for a few reasons but, mostly I like John Grogans writing style & plan to read his new book The Longest Trip Home ( See review later) And I also have a lovable slab of yellow Lab that has done a lot of...

Eat Pray Love... I am one of the millions of people that loved Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love. I picked up this book a few years ago when it was hot off the Oprah book club list. It sat in my stack of “to reads” for a while but once I picked it up I was instantly engaged.  What can  I say other than I loved it. I am not sure if it was the authors real life earthy writing style that I so identified with, or just...

Twilight... Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past year you have no doubt heard of the phenomenon that is the Twilight saga by author Stephanie Meyer. These books are not usually my type of reading, but they are on fire so I decided to give them a shot. I am currently in the third book of this series   after being turned on to them a few months ago.  I like millions of women quickly fell in love with the dynamic...

Notes To Myself – by Hugh Prather... Reading Notes To Myself is one of those rare experiences that comes only once in a great while. The editor who discovered the book said, “When I first read Prather’s manuscript it was late at night and I was tired, but by the time I finished it, I felt rested and alive. Since then I’ve reread it many times and it says even more to me now.” The book serves as a beginning for the reader’s...

Followed – Mahatma Gandhi... “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” “Where there is love there is life.” “7 DEADLY SINS Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics...

Albert Einstein – His Words... “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” “Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get...

Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein... The first time I read “Where The Sidewalk Ends”, I was around 12 years old and I loved it. Over the years I have read and re-read it several times, or at least parts of it – the love affair has never ended. Silverstein’s poetry style is his own: laid-back and conversational, filled with humor and wit, occasionally employing slang. His  simple pen-and-ink drawings are clever and charming. Although...

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists... Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs were not the only “beats”. Not as widely know as their male counterparts, Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman, and Madeline Gleason were all instrumental to the beat movement. Knight’s book attempts to rectify this oversight by profiling these women and others of the Beat generation and publishing samples of their work. Just as the men did, these women wrote poetry, went...