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[Book Review] #ShalomBayis by Penina Shtauber
Posted on December 29, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Penina Shtauber Shalom Bayis is the Jewish religious concept of peace and harmony between husband and wife in the home. #ShalomBayis is a collection of short stories about married couples trying to practice this concept with varying degrees of success and failure. This is the second book is Shtauber’s #ShidduchCrisis series. Shtauber is a […]
Books On My Reading List This Week – December 28, 2021
Posted on December 28, 2021 1 Comment
Read Along with Me I hope you’re enjoying a restful winter break! I am looking forward to enjoying some great books this week. The first book is a departure from my usual reading, in that it is something of a fairy-tale. I generally don’t read young adult literature but on a book buying spree, a […]
[Book Review] History: Global Citizen, Remarkable Life by Kyra Kaptzan Robinov
Posted on December 22, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Kyra Kaptzan Robinov This is the second book in the RUSSIAN ROOTS: A Global Generational Saga. This is the story of the author’s father, Michael Kaptzan. He was born in Siberia. In his early childhood, his family’s remote village was overrun by the Bolsheviks, who murdered his father. Along with his mother and siblings, […]
Books On My Reading List This Week – December 21, 2021
Posted on December 21, 2021 Leave a Comment
Read Along with Me My first exposure to audiobooks came from my grandmother (of blessed memory). She was an avid reader but lost her sight to macular degeneration and started receiving Talking Books from an organization that provided devices and audiobooks by mail. They arrived in green plastic cases and consisted of mutli-sided cassette tapes. […]
[Book Review] Grounds for Divorce by Remy Maisel
Posted on December 15, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Remy Maisel Emily is coming off a rough day when she finds herself receiving communications from the State Department about an interview for work on a highly specialized, top-secret mission. There’s just one little problem. They have the wrong woman. What’s the mission? Representing Israel in a divorce settlement-style mediation with representatives from the […]
Books On My Reading List This Week – December 14, 2021
Posted on December 14, 2021 Leave a Comment
Read Along with Me I was so proud of myself for all the progress I’ve been making on my ‘Want to Read’ list on Goodreads recently. If you’re a regular reader, you know that I have become what some might describe as mildly obsessive about making progress on moving books from that list to the […]
[Book Review] Cain v Abel by Rabbi Dan Orstein
Posted on December 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Rabbi Dan Ornstein Rabbi Ornstein’s Cain v Abel places the reader in the role of juror in the first murder. Settle into the jury box as the case unfolds with expert witnesses evaluating Cain’s family history, emotional and spiritual influences, and psychological profile. Designed to provoke discussion, the book concludes with discussion questions. Rabbi […]
[Book Review] Making Meaning Out of Madness by Miranda Portnoy
Posted on December 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Miranda Portnoy Portnoy’s memoir takes the reader through a traumatic childhood. When she finds herself the scapegoat of a murderer, Portnoy feels alone, with seemingly nowhere to turn this agnostic turns to faith. This is where her life takes an unexpected turn. She meets and marries a prestigious Orthodox man in Jerusalem. In part […]
Books On My Reading List This Week – December 7, 2021
Posted on December 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
Read Along with Me Another week, another exciting list of books to enjoy. I’ve been getting some great book mail from publicist Stuart Schnee. What could be better than new books arriving in your mailbox? That was the source of two of the books on my list this week. The first book on my list […]
[Book Review] Chicken Dreaming Corn by Roy Hoffman
Posted on December 1, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Roy Hoffman Set in turn of the century Mobile, Alabama, Morris Kleinman is a shop owner living among a tapestry of immigrants from across Europe and South America as well as people of color. Kleinman and his wife raise their family in the living quarters above their storefront while contending with war, the Great […]
