Today’s post is part of the From Left to Write online book club. The idea of this book club is not to write a book review, per se, but rather to write a post in which the blogger connects the book to an experience from her own life. September’s book is the new biography Cleopatra: [...]
 
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Today’s post is part of the From Left to Write online book club. The idea of this book club is not to write a book review, per se, but rather to write a post in which the blogger connects that month’s book to an experience from his or her own life. April’s book is Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes, a memoir [...] My new book club had its third meeting last week. I am very excited to be part of a book club again after several years off. I had been part of a wonderful book group during the years of my life that I went from “young bride” to “first-time mom.” That group was full of interesting, smart women and we read just [...] Today’s post is part of the From Left to Write online book club. The idea of this book club is not to write a book review, per se, but rather to write a post in which the blogger connects that month’s book to an experience from his or her own life. March’s book is Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English, a novel [...] Our temple has a book fair in the fall featuring “Jewish” books for adults and kids. I use what my mother calls “cutesy quotes” around the word “Jewish” because the definition of a Jewish book in this context is fairly broad, ranging from books about Jewish religious practice and the latest Holocaust novel to anything by [...] Today’s post is part of the From Left to Write online book club. The idea of this book club is not to write a book review, per se, but rather to write a post in which the blogger connects that month’s book to an experience from his or her own life. October’s book is The Kids Are All Right, a memoir [...] Cowboy and Wills by Monica Holloway Today’s post is part of the From Left to Write online book club. The idea of this book club is not to write a book review, per se, but rather to write a post in which the blogger connects that month’s book to an experience from his or her own life. September’s book is the [...] Following the closing of the Silicon Valley Moms Group site, and the resultant closing of its Book Club, I have joined a new blogging book club entitled From Left to Write. The idea of From Left to Write is not to write a book review per se but rather a post in which the blogger connects that month’s book to an anecdote [...] An SV Moms Group Book Club post: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok Immigration has been a extremely charged topic in American politics for decades. President Obama and Senator McCain heatedly debated the issue of immigration reform during the 2008 election, when the Latino vote was believed to be crucial. And Arizona’s draconian new law targeting undocumented workers is only the [...] Is ambivalence the default state of mind for a twenty-first century mother? Work. Stay at home. Either way, you will second-guess your decision on a daily basis and feel the judgmental eyes of others on you at every turn. If you work outside the home, you worry about the time you are not spending with your [...] When I was researching the guest post on matzo ball soup that I did for my friend Kate’s food blog Savour-Fare, I came across the book Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited by the food writer Arthur Schwartz, who is known as “the Food Maven.” Originally, I checked this book out of the library, but [...] |
 
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