Category Archives: Non-fiction

What To Expect When You’re Expecting…the movie

There probably isn’t a mother around who hasn’t at one time or another, picked up the book What To Expect When You’re Expecting! I owned the book and read it every week, if not every day when I was pregnant … Continue reading

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Max Factor, The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World

I enjoy a good biography now and then and what better book for a beauty lover like myself than this one about Max Factor?  Author Fred E. Basten did an incredible job of detailing the life of Max Factor and … Continue reading

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Wild: Lost and Found on the Pacific Coast Trail

  I read a really good book last week and it was enormous. Its called The Beach Trees by Karen White, in case you want to know.  I accidentally put a reserve on the large print version of the book … Continue reading

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What I’ve read lately

If you grew up in the 80′s then you are very familiar with Rob Lowe. He was in a bunch of movies during the height of my teens so of course I knew him well. Who hasn’t seen The Outsiders, … Continue reading

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Looking forward to these new releases

  Always looking for whats coming soon, I found myself on Amazon.com yet again looking at New Releases and found several that sparked my interest. Do you have any plans of reading these? Sophie Kinsella, I’ve Got Your Number- I … Continue reading

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Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

If you are an introvert, you will want to read this book, Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. For the longest time, I thought there was something wrong with me because … Continue reading

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Yoga Bitch by Suzanne Morrison

There is definitely a trend in my reading these days and that’s because I’ve been doing yoga and am intrigued with others who do it. I read Poser by Claire Dederer and I just finished Yoga Bitch by Suzanne Morrison last night. … Continue reading

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Poser: My Life in Twenty Three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer

Since I’ve been practicing yoga regularly, I was very interested in reading this book by Claire Dederer. My friend Gayle Brandeis told  me about the book and I knew I needed to read it. In Poser: My Life in Twenty Three Yoga … Continue reading

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Bonding over Beauty

If you have a daughter- especially a “tween”, this is a cute must- read book for you. In Bonding Over Beauty author Erika Katz shows us how to have a close relationship with our daughters while doing beauty related activities. But its … Continue reading

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Are you doing NaNo?

NaNo, for those of you who don’t know, is National Novel Writing Month during the month of November. The idea is to write every day,  for the month and when November is over,  you will have approx a 175 page novel … Continue reading

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