Number 101 is for you to fill in on the list.It’s that one book when you close your eyes and think back to being snuggled up on someone’s lap, you vividly remember.That book is a must-read with your kids.What book is it?I’d love to know.Share the title in the comments. P...
So when I was pregnant and people kept telling me that once the baby was born, I would never have time and energy to read books again, I felt upset. I knew if I had to stop reading, I wouldn’t be the best me, and I wouldn’t be the best mother for my baby.My husband did ...
Binu’s love for reading leads her to discover a library in her new home, which becomes a kind of refuge in her dull marriage. She is finally relieved when her husband too is supportive of her passion for reading. Realising that she deserves a lot more, a pregnant Manasi decides to ...
It tends to get a little hippy-dippy, and starts to border on cultish territory; the whole section is about “The Farm”, the author’s natural childbirth facility and the patients and midwives there. It makes a lot more sense to read the first half after the second half, and I think ...
to the mid-19th century, they provided the first systematic explanations of how economies work, where they fail and how they might be made to work better. Here, Brad DeLong, a professor of economics at UC Berkeley, introduces the classical economists, and suggests books to read to learn ...
By August, they are able to travel to the Savoy for a holiday and Antelme is able to read a newspaper: “Hiroshima is perhaps the first thing outside his own life that he see.” Antelme and Duras did divorce and Mascolo became the second of three husbands. Antelme wrote a memoir of...
In the end, it was Boyle, pregnant with her third child, who wrote over a quarter of the book’s contents, demonstrating exceptional versatility in her choice of subjects and styles. Halfway through the year, much of the edited material for the book was destroyed when a pro-Nazi group ...
Once I got past the introduction, I found the book hard to put down.” Read more... Notable Nonfiction Books of Fall 2024 Sophie Roell, Journalist Buy now The Vietnam War: A Military History by Geoffrey Wawro Read expert recommendations “Also in military history and getting good ...
When Sylvia found out she was pregnant at the age of 42, James abandoned her and didn’t meet his son until 23 years later. Two decades after her death in 1996, Cellan-Jones sifted through 60 years’ worth of his mother’s correspondence to piece together what happened at the time of ...
hinting that pregnant Ann Bigelow do the unthinkable so that Cooke can move from abolition to temperance; the anguish of Shadrach, whose jubilation over his flight to safety is almost cancelled by the pain of having left the woman he loves behind. And the thoughts that Thoreau records in his...