Motherland Amy Sohn If Sophie Kinsella and Gillian Flynn got together and had a book baby, this would be it. Soapy, strange and gloriously off-the-wall, this set of NYC moms will make your PTA battles look tame. Mommie Dearest Christina Crawford The book is always better than the movie. While Crawford […]
It’s one thing to share your life experiences—your relationship with your parents, how you raise your kids—with your friends. But to write a book about them? That’s another story. Author and comedienne Julia Sweeney admits that she took a big leap with her latest book, “If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother.” “This is book is […]
Think books are just for relaxation? Think again—thrillers are just the genre for anyone who likes a little excitement between the pages. We’ve got a few recommendations that are sure to get your heart pounding this spring break: Dante’s Wood Lynne Raimondo Seventh Street Books, $11 From one of the North Shore’s own—get in […]
To describe Evanston’s Scott Turow as a best-selling author would be a vast understatement.
There’s a reason there are things called book clubs, and not things called “reality TV clubs.” Books make you think. Great, different or just controversial ideas are often first shared on paper, and books are a go-to source for anyone looking to broaden their horizons. Here are books with stunning and insightful ideas that will […]
I had to ask author and Harvard Business School lecturer Robert Pozen, “Did Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer get it right?” Mayer created a stir first for only taking a two-week maternity leave as Yahoo’s new CEO, and then by ending telecommuting and ordering everyone back into the office. “I’m not sure,” he says. In his most […]
In her new book, “The Balance Myth: Rethinking Work-Life Success,” former Qwest COO Teresa Taylor offers insight about the marriage of career and family, and takes a firm stance that you can indeed, have it all. As she sets forth in the prologue, women should not have to choose “between being a great wife and mother […]
GQ deputy editor Michael Hainey was just 6 years old and living in Chicago’s northwest suburbs when he received some life-changing news. He was told early one Friday morning that his father, Chicago Sun-Times newspaper editor Robert Hainey, wasn’t coming home. The details were sketchy at best, that he had passed away “after visiting friends”—but […]
If only we could look as cool as the French when we try to parent in their style. On the heels of last year’s “Bringing Up Bébé,” author Pamela Druckerman offers up a companion piece to her book that explores the differences between American and French parenting styles. “Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to […]
Want to root for an underdog? Try the guy building a tennis court into the side of an Italian cliff.
