Non-Fiction 7/7

Apr 8, 20191 min read

Hold me Tight by Dr Sue Johnson

Little, Brown Book Group, 2008 Couples guide to building loving relationships through Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT). Explores...

Apr 8, 20191 min read

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein

HarperCollins Publishers, 2016 Describes the “new sexual landscape” (hook-up culture, rape culture, drinking, consent, etc.) based on...

Apr 8, 20191 min read

My Life So Far by Jane Fonda

Random House, 2005 Autobiography. Might be worth a skim. I'm glad I read it. Some interesting thoughts on families (Fonda's mother killed...

Apr 8, 20191 min read

The Silent Language by Edward Hall

Doubleday & Company Inc., 1959 Anthropological study of culture and how it affects our every move. Very interesting.

Apr 8, 20191 min read

In Gratitude by Jenny Diski

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 When Jenny Diski was a teenager with nowhere to go, she was taken in by Doris Lessing. Years later and...

Apr 8, 20191 min read

Gut by Giulia Enders

Scribe Publications, 2015 Great book about what goes on in your stomach! Easy to read science subject. (Beware the first chapter or two...

Apr 8, 20191 min read

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

First Published Hogarth Press, 1929 Asked to give a lecture on Women and Fiction at Cambridge University in 1928, Woolf set out to...

Apr 8, 20191 min read

On Writing by Stephen King

Scribner, 2000 I read King's Carrie when I was 13 years old. Having outgrown Harlequin romances, I'd recently borrowed Sidney Sheldon's...

Apr 8, 20191 min read

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The New Press 2010 Revised edition with forward by Cornel West 2012 Explores the War on Drugs politics. Shows how the War on Drug is...