Here’s a review of Antonia Fraser’s The Wives of Henry VIII (there also seems to be an updated version, The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Women in History)), which the bookclub picked, partially because I’d read it before and thought it was interesting, partially because most of the bookclub members knew a little about that [...]
To the anonymous reader of my blog who bought books on Amazon using my associates link, thank you! Not so much for the few cents it brought me but for the fact that it means you thought enough of what I wrote to check out the books and spend your own money to get a [...]
Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness is rightly popular (I had to wait some time before it became available at the local library). Despite the title, it’s not one of these “seven steps to real happiness” books. It’s more a book that tells you why people’s expectations of what will or should make them happy are [...]
We’ve had problems with getting the baby (now 10 months) to sleep properly during the day, and when she also started waking more often during the night I decided I had to figure out an answer. Our first child slept readily, took schedule variations in his stride, and so it was a big shock when [...]
The book club I belong to decided to read Queen Noor’s “Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life”, her autobiography, and this is a summary of our review. Part of the reason we chose this book was in the hopes that it would be a more accessible way of learning more about that part [...]
There seem to be as many philosophies about how to bring up children successfully as there are parents, which fact you tend not to discover until you are a parent yourself. And then you have to hope that your philosophy is reasonably congruent with that of the other parent and/or caregivers in your child’s [...]
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