Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Survivor Speaks Out by Michael Benfante (2011) | Book Review
Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Survivor Speaks Out by Michael Benfante Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Reluctant Hero. On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work, just like he had day after day, at his office on the eighty-first floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the first plane struck, just twelve floors above him, Benfante organized his terrified employees, getting them out the office and moving down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker encountered a woman in a wheelchair on the sixty-eighth floor. Benfante, the…
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin (2009) | Book Review
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin Genres: Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Goodreads, Amazon Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. In this lively and compelling account, Rubin…
I Love Organizing Books and Meeting Authors
Organizing Your Books I love organizing my books. When I was little, my room wasn’t that neat, but all my children’s books were arranged on my big bookcase in alphabetical order by the author’s last name! Right now I have some volumes in a storage facility, some on shelves, and others scattered around the bedroom, bathroom, and living room (and I’m not going to post photos of that mess!) I am giving some away to charity (if I haven’t read them in ten years I’m never going to read them!). But most importantly, I bought a Kindle a few months ago and have them on there. It can hold over…
Borders Books 1971-2011 Farewell
Borders Books Will Be Closing All Their Stores It’s a sad day for book lovers — Borders Books will be closing all their stores. Sigh. I had wonderful times at the store in Wayne, NJ. That store closed several years ago when Wayne Towne Center mall was partially demolished. I spent many happy hours reading books, buying books, and choosing opera CDs for Christmas gifts for my relatives. Even though it was a chain, that store was very “homey”. I remember swing music playing and people dancing in the aisles. That branch was my favorite chain bookstore EVER. No one ever pestered you if you sat in a chair reading…
Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew by Jim Higley (2011) | Book Review
Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew by Jim Higley Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon Jim Higley was a forty-year-old bobblehead. Just like those collectible figurines with oversized, bouncy heads, he’d put on a smiling face and bobble through his hectic, overflowing days. Higley’s bobbling came to a screeching halt with the diagnosis of cancer, surgery, and a summer of healing. More than a cancer story, however, Bobblehead Dad puts you in a front-row seat as the author discovers the illuminating parallels between…
