Books High and Low

Monday, September 26, 2022

Southern lady code, by Helen Ellis

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I flew through this hilarious collection of short essays by author Helen Ellis, an Alabama native who now lives in New York City. She remind...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

How to give up plastic, by Will McCallum

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  Written by Will McCallum, Head of Oceans at Greenpeace UK, this excellent resource reveals the impact that plastics have on our environmen...

The Tudors in love, by Sarah Gristwood

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This is a fascinating examination of the Tudor dynasty as seen through the prism of courtly love. Gristwood (Game of Queens: The Women Who ...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Stress pandemic: the lifestyle solution, by Paul Huljich

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  This is a useful plan to reduce stress and deal with its effects on the body and mind. Author Paul Huljich shares his own experience with...
Friday, September 23, 2022

The art of non-conformity, by Chris Guillebeau

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  In the vein of the more well-known Timothy Ferris and his The four-hour work week , author Chris Guillebeau encourages readers to think di...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Lenin for beginners, by A & Z

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  This is an interesting graphic novel presentation of the life of Lenin and the developments leading up to the 1917 Russian revolution. A a...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Artists and their pets, by Susie Hodge, illustrated by Violet Lemay

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  I enjoyed this children's introduction to artists and their relationships with their pets. Author Susie Hodge devotes 2-6 pages to eac...

Drop dead healthy, by A.J. Jacobs

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  This is a funny take on America's obsession with health. Author A.J. Jacobs takes on one body part at a time, consulting with doctors,...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Every day love: the delicate art of caring for each other, by Judy Ford

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  This is a thorough exploration of the relationships between spouses, partners, significant others, as well as between other family members...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

50 things to do when you turn 50, edited by Ronnie Sellers

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  This is a fun book to delve into. Experts provide suggestions for what readers should do when they turn 50. The book is organized in eight...

One year to an organized life, by Regina Leeds

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  This is a useful guide to organizing every room in your house and other areas of your life such as holidays and travel. Author Regina Leed...

The number, by Lee Eisenberg

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  This book is about identifying the amount of money that you need to have saved or invested so that you can retire at a standard of living ...

You can retire sooner than you think, by Wes Moss

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  This is a useful book about how to plan and save for retirement. Moss's advice revolves around first identifying what you want your re...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Ready for anything: 52 productivity principles for work & life, by David Allen

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  While I'm a fan of David Allen's book Getting things done (GTD), I'm less fond of this followup, which consists of repackaged ...
Monday, September 5, 2022

Simplify your life, by Marcia Ramsland

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  I enjoyed this approach to simplifying your life by getting organized and reducing clutter. Author Marcia Ramsland tackles all aspects of ...

Quitter: closing the gap between your day job and your dream job, by Jon Acuff

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  This is a thoughtful look at how you can reconcile your day job and your dreams. Many folks are in jobs that pay the bills but which aren...

Money secrets of the Amish, by Lorilee Craker

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  I enjoyed this humorous exploration of how the Amish manage their money and save. Author Lorilee Craker comes from a Mennonite background ...

Throw out fifty things, by Gail Blanke

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  This is a great guide to helping readers purge their possessions to get control of clutter and make their lives more manageable. I focused...
Friday, September 2, 2022

The queen is in the garbage, by Lila Karp

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  This is a reissue of the 1971 novel by radical feminist Lila Karp, published as part of the Classic Feminist Writers Series by The Feminis...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

9 1/2 narrow: my life in shoes, by Patricia Morrisroe

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  This is an amusing and intimate look into the life of journalist Patricia Morrisroe through the lens of the shoes and boots that she has l...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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  This was my book club’s latest selection. I'd been interested in it given that it's been on the NYT best seller list for months. I...

Remainders of the day: A bookshop diary, by Shaun Bythell

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  Bythell (Confessions of a Bookseller) is the owner of Scotland's largest used bookstore, which has more than 100,000 books in stock....
Friday, August 19, 2022

Election, by Tom Perrotta

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  This was my book club's August pick; one of our members wanted to read it in anticipation of the sequel. It was a quick and very amusi...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Making the list: a cultural history of the American bestseller, 1900-1999, by Michael Korda

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  I picked up this book in the Books about Books section of the Dog Ears Used Bookstore in Hoosick, NY a couple of weeks ago. It gives the ...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Aethelflaed: the Lady of the Mercians, by Tim Clarkson

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  Aethelflaed is the oldest daughter of Alfred the Great, but the most important near-contemporary history of that time, The Anglo-Saxon Chr...
Monday, July 25, 2022

The burnout challenge: managing people's relationships with their jobs, by Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter

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  Psychologists Maslach and Leiter follow up their book The Truth About Burnout with this guide to the causes of burnout and how organizati...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

The hidden public: the story of the Book-of-the-Month Club, by Charles Lee

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On a recent trip to Bennington, VT, we stopped off at the Dog Ears Book Store, where my favorite section is the books about books category, ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

The Bezos blueprint: communication secrets of the world's greatest salesman, by Carmine Gallo

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  Communications coach Gallo (Talk Like TED) teaches successful speaking and writing by breaking down the communication style of Amazon fou...

A man of the world: My life at National Geographic, by Gilbert M. Grosvenor

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  I picked up this book at the ALA conference in Washington, D.C. in June. It tells the story of author Gilbert M. Governor's life growi...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

Lady in the lake, by Laura Lippman

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  I really enjoyed this mystery set in the 1960s. Maddie Schwartz has left her husband and is trying to make it on her own. She begins an af...
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