I’m a total cheapskate (and don’t mind being called one), so I was immediately drawn to a book titled “The Penny Pinchers Club” by Sarah Strohmeyer. The underlying principal has a lot in common with “Confessions of a Shopaholic” Read the rest of this entry »

Anita Shreve has the gift of transporting you into a different setting and “A Change in Altitude” is no exception. It also features her trademark – complex relationships. Read the rest of this entry »

“How to Be Single” by Liz Tuccillo is sure to remind fans of Sex in the City (which is no surprise since Tuccillo was a story editor for the series). It centers around the main characters quest to define herself as more than just a single woman and what’s happening to her friends while she’s off on this “spirit quest”. Read the rest of this entry »

It seems strange to suggest a book about suicide when you’re feeling low, and yet, “A Long Way Down” seems to me to be the perfect antidote for the blues. Written by Nick Hornby, author of “High Fidelity“, it’s the story of 4 people who each decide to end it all on the same night in the same place. Read the rest of this entry »

I thoroughly enjoyed “The Devil Wears Prada” (book is better than the movie, as usual). Perhaps that’s why it took me a while to pick up “The Nanny Diaries“. I haven’t seen the movie, but the book is essentially the same as “Devil” in a different industry. Read the rest of this entry »

“The Bookseller of Kabul” is one of those excellent works of non-fiction that’s easy to read and gives you a true inside glimpse of a family drama. Read the rest of this entry »