Books We Love

Every year, newspapers and magazines review “beach reads”—great paperbacks to take with you on summer vacation.

But you don’t have to go on vacation to experience a great read.

Books can enrich our lives any time by exposing us to new ideas and wild adventures and enthusiastic heroines.

Who of us didn’t fall in love with Scarlet O’Hara?

I know a woman who can’t get enough of biographies of famous and infamous women—Lady Hamilton, Elizabeth I, Queen Noor, Patty Hearst.

Another woman has a floor to ceiling bookshelf of foreign country references and travel guides. Her coffee table always has at least one beautiful hardback full of colored pictures about China, Italy, or Stonehenge.

Another woman collects travel essays and journals. She’s an artist herself, who never travels without a sketchpad and tiny folding tray of watercolors.

In books adventuresses abound. They’re everywhere, and we love them for it.

Don’t be put off by that bumper sticker, so many books, so little time.

Here’s a little tip: if it's really difficult for you to find time to read, try books on tape. They’ve seen me serenely entertained through long drives, grid-locked traffic, and demanding, dull, monotonous housework.

Grab a cup of tea or a glass of wine, settle into your favorite nook, and get ready to meet—in both fiction and non-fiction—some of our favorites.

Legal Tender In Legal Tender, Harper relates her experiences as a former brothel madam and puts a human face on the women who sell sexual services and the men who buy them.

Dancing in My Nightgown is the poignant, yet amusing account of Betty Auchard's loss of her husband of 49 years. Betty's road to self-sufficiency is filled with laughter, creativity, connection, tears and transformation.

Diana Gabaldon's WWII Heroine, Claire Randall On her second honeymoon, WWII British nurse Claire Randall steps through a circle of stones and is transported to 18th century Scotland, on the eve of the Battle of Culloden.

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