Book Review: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

This week’s book is The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. 1. What I like about the book At almost 400 pages this was quite a tome, but certainly worth the read. Death is rarely discussed with as much clarity, detail, and acceptance as it is here. Many people’s lives have been [...]

Book Review: Speaking For Myself

As the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Cherie Blair provides a rare glimpse of life in the political stratosphere. She takes us into right through the front door of Number 10 Downing Street and introduces us to the privileges and struggles of an ordinary family thrown into extra-ordinary circumstances.

You can’t help feeling that she is using the book to get back at the British press, which for the most part portrayed her in unflattering terms during her tenure as prime minister’s wife. In all fairness, she deserves to tell her side of the story. And though it is the story of an obviously flawed person, so are all our individual stories. And this one certainly had me turning the pages.

Book Review: Send Yourself Roses

This is the very first Joyful Days book review!

As part of my commitment to myself to read a book a week, I’m going to post a review for the book of the week every Sunday. That’s the current plan anyway. There’s no particular reason this is the first book. It just happened to be the book I was reading when I decided to ‘go public’ with my reading commitment.

Do post a comment if you have any suggestions how this book review can be made more useful for you, the reader. Here goes! Read more…

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