Who’s up for a solo trip to an exotic city or two? Stephanie Rosenbloom celebrates the ticket-for-one idea in her book, Alone Time, in which she visits four cities in four seasons. No husband. No girlfriends. No tour bus. It’s all to “savor” the experience, which Rosenbloom claims, can be done better without the distraction of companions. So we, the readers follow along, as [...]
I do believe that ages 12 until 30 are the most write-able years of one’s life. Coming-of-age adventures never get old for readers. Exhibit A for my little theory is How Did You Get This Number?, a collection of essays by Sloane Crosley. Crosley is a child of the New York suburbs; also a child of the sexual revolution, living out the long adolescence [...]
This week, our heroine is a middle-aged ugly duckling. In The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol, Josephine Cortes’ husband dumps her for a young salon chick. All Josephine has left is her suburban Paris apartment, her teen/tween daughters, one of whom wears a bikini all too well and constantly tells her, “Mom, you’re such a buzzkill.” The other daughter is as sweet and [...]
