Jessica

Personable account of someone that lives just a few miles from me in Chicago, but has a difference journey that she shares with thought provoking perspective.

This will stick with me for a long time “In institutional mourning this just doesn't mean love for a school or for the people in it. It can also mean love for ourselves within the school. In loosing school one loses a version of oneself- a self understood to be a member of a community, living and learning in relation to other community members”

Journalistic account, but beautifully written glimpse of the bloodshed that is far to common in Chicago.

Beautifully written sad/happy story of family interaction dynamics set against the power and legends of the Hawaiian islands. Perfect escapism.

This was my favorite book that I read this year & one that I highly recommend. Very beautifully written, it was the type of book that you didn't want to end.

A book about the Russians buying the election of the President of the United States by an author who died in 2005.

This is a book that you read & then put down, a while later pick it up & read some more. Finally on a winters night you are determined to finish it & it feels like the last 100 miles of a long road trip - you are happy that you did it, but recognize the energy of the drive outweighed the joy of the vacation.

I received a signed copy of this book by a friend who attending a reading of Jill Ebstein. The premise is simple, we all make degree of choices, from deciding to run a marathon to jumping off of the career trajectory to staying home to care for children. Ebstein breaks these into age decades and the book doesn't necessarily need to be read in order. I enjoyed reading the stories of the later generations, there is the benefit of more experiences and a different perspective. Enjoyable read.