Editors' Picks
See the eight reviews our editors have chosen this month:
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Hope Edelman is an intelligent woman, a wife and a New York Times best-selling author. She is also a devoted mother to three year-old Maya. In her memoir, The Possibility of Everything, Edelman finds herself in a stage of her life where she is questioning her purpose and examining the choices she has made.about motherhood, marriage and writing.
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P.S. What I Didn't Say is an anthology about women's friendships. Editor Megan McMorris has selected thirty-six letters to include in this collection. The letters, all written by different women, celebrate and examine past and current friendships from now older and wiser perspectives.
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Set in 1918, Hellie Jondoe tells the story of a headstrong young orphan trapped in a series of events beyond her control.
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"I hope that you are able to look again at your good-enough man and realize that it isn't necessary or even desirable that he be a prince or that you find a happily ever after," writes Sally Watkins in her self-help book Change Your Mindset, Not Your Man.
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We may think that we are getting a bargain shopping at discount stores, but Ellen Ruppel Shell gives a well-researched and convincing argument that quality trumps bargains.
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Asked "What do you need?" most caregivers would respond readily: rest; solitude; privacy; companionship; recreation; freedom from interruption, worry, frustration, anger, grief, depression. Author B. Lynn Goodwin, who spent seven years doing "Mom Care," says caregivers need a lifeline.
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Imagine this. A dumpy elderly widow, Mrs. Moskowitz, who has trouble remembering everyday needs heads out of her apartment for a little grocery shopping. A neurotic young woman, Natalie, obsessing with guilt about how she didn't attend to her mother before her mother's death hurries to work. They collide and a fairy tale is born.
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Not your ordinary how-to manual, Peggy Tabor Millin's Women, Writing and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine is a unique and inspiring blend of the poetic, spiritual and practical in which the author seeks a balance between "feminine being and masculine doing."
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Review of the Month
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Barbara Kingsolver gets the gold in my book. The Lacuna was brilliantly conceived and executed. The language and story are captivating, going where I hadn't expected—at least not for a long while. It can work very well as a great story that includes the role of art, artists and political perspective.
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Reviewed by Mary Marino-Strong
Mary Marino-Strong has a passion for good stories, especially those that embody deeper meaning than may first seem obvious. She is newly focused on her writing: a mystery series, a memoir, and the blog, "Moving from the Inside Out", to launch in late March, 2010. Her inner spiritual journey is the current that nourishes and guides her. She has been a teacher, healer and a catalyst for change. Mary is a contributing author of the book, Welcome to Your MindBody. She has written many wellness and self healing columns, newsletters and articles over the past 20 years.
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