Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor’s Story Lynn C. Tolson http://beyondthetears.blogspot.com/ Reviewed by Anne Holmes for the NABBW This is one of those “can’t put it down” thrillers. It even begins with a “dark and stormy night:” “That night, December 20, 1978, the radio reported the most rain in Phoenix in one hundred years. Broadcasters called it the flood of the century. While I was driving, I listened to reports of accumulated rainfall and road closures. “Stay off the streets,” the announcer warned. The wet pavement reflected the colored holiday lights that adorned cactus.... (Read More ...)
Changing Shoes: Getting Older – Not Old – with Style, Humor and Grace Author: Tina Sloan http://www.changingshoes.com Reviewed by: Anne Holmes for NABBW While many women hide signs of aging with tight clothes, heavy makeup and plastic surgery, 67-year old Guiding Light legend Tina Sloan learned to welcome each phase of her life with effortless grace — all while living a very public life. In the book Tina recalls how she made her first appearance on soap operas in the 1970s as the sex kitten on Somerset, and hit it big when she was cast as nurse Lillian Raines on Guiding Light, a role... (Read More ...)
Author: Margaret May Damen, Niki N. McCuistionwww.womenwealthandgiving.com/ Reviewed By: Georgia Richardson Authors Damen and McCuistion wrote this book for two audiences: Baby boomer women who want to create a formalized and strategic giving plan, and fundraisers and development officers who need to better understand the giving culture of women boomers. The authors draw on their combined experiences – Damen as a Certified Financial Planner, investment adviser and endowment gift planning design specialist and McCuistion as a nonprofit founder, CEO and consultant – to challenge their readers... (Read More ...)
Author: Barbara Hannah Gruffermanwww.BestofEverythingAfter50.com Reviewed By: Anne Holmes I loved the introduction to this book. Author Grufferman starts out by saying, “I wrote this book for me.” She goes on to explain that once she got over the shock of turning 50, she wanted to do it right. That is: She wanted a plan for dealing wither new reality. She wanted to streamline her life down to the essential elements She wanted a go-to reference guide to her changing body and lifestyle She wanted a straightforward book that would put all the most useful information in one place, with... (Read More ...)
Author: Leigh Anne Jashewaywww.accidentalcomic.com Reviewed By: Georgia Richardson Good things come in small packages and so it is with author Leigh Anne Jasheway’s latest book, “How’d All These Ping Pong Balls Get in My Bag!? – The Stressed-Out Woman’s Guide to Letting Go with Laughter.” Known in humor circles as a “laugh master,” Jasheway has written a little book that delivers large doses of what we all need—ways to combat the stress of every day life by using humor and laughter to work through it. Loaded with statistics, studies, and personal experiences,... (Read More ...)
