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Book Review: The Private Patient, by P.D. James

By Elizabeth Willse
In The Private Patient (Knopf  2008,  $25.95) P.D. James, who began her celebrated and prolific mystery writing career in her forties, has delivered an excellent Gothic tangle of a mystery. Her protagonist, investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn, has  lived throughout her life and career with a brutally disfiguring facial scar. Shortly after her 47th birthday, she checks into an exclusive private…
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Book Review: When I Married My Mother

By Elizabeth Willse
The title of Jo Maeder’s honest and sweetly funny memoir refers to the three years she spent caring for her aging mother in Greensboro, N.C.  In her late 30s, Maeder gave up a successful career as a New York City pop radio DJ in order to care for her mother, Mama Jo.  Mama Jo had lived alone for decades, her…
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Fashion & Beauty

Book Review: The Woman’s Guide to Exceptional Living

By Elizabeth Willse
Everything about Corrie Woods’  The Woman’s Field Guide to Exceptional Living: Practical Steps for Living a Big, Bold, Beautiful Life! invite you to slip it in a pocket and carry it around for a while: the title, the volume’s slim size, and its message of courageously embracing your truest, most creative self. Woods urges her readers to nurture their spirits…
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Books · General Medical · Health

Insomnia: A Book by Gayle Greene

By Elizabeth Willse
  Veteran author Gayle Greene, author of The Woman Who Knew Too Much and Changing the Story, is also a member of  he American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a professional medical society for researchers and clinicians, and a board member and the patient representative of the American Insomnia Association. Her new book, Insomniac, goes far beyond what those facts might…
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Book Review: The Writing Class Will Please Adrenaline Junkies

By Elizabeth Willse
By Elizabeth Willse/Bio The Writing ClassBy Jincy WillettThomas Dunne BooksJune 2008 326 pp Setting a whodunit in the middle of an adult education writing class makes for an blend of suspense and quirky comedy. Jincy Willett's "The Writing Class" features a misanthropic instructor — Amy Gallup, a middle-aged novelist who spends the first class writing notes in the margins of…
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