Things To Read

Virginie Degryse, a passionate food lover, mother, Angeleno and blogger who hails from Belgium believes that family and cooking are profoundly linked.  The recipes in Degryse’s latest book Crave and Cook: Home Cooking During the Holidays incorporates her mandate that food must be healthy, tasty and easy to cook for busy parents. So read on and learn how … Continue Reading

Best selling novelist Alice Hoffman does it again with Faithful.  It’s the story of fellow Long Island native Shelby Richmond whose ordinary life is upended by an extraordinary tragedy that changes her fate. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. A riveting and heart wrenching tale. … Continue Reading

David Monn’s party prowess has served up state dinners at the White House, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala and once-in-a-lifetime birthday celebrations.  Find out how you can make your own fetes Monn-worthy with this beautiful and useful book.  So Suzy Says.  

Medical Medium Anthony William’s newest book, Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods: Save Yourself and the Ones You Love with the Hidden Healing Powers of Fruits & Vegetables, discusses the best food choices to make for yourself.  So Suzy Says.

Harvard neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Louann Brizendinec, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, explored the female brain in her last book.  In her new publication, she focuses on the Man/Boy brain, showing how, throughout life, the “male reality” is fundamentally different from female grey matter. Brizendine’s deft prose make complex … Continue Reading

Featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Fisher Stevens, Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the worldwide changes occurring due to climate change.  An interesting perspective.  So Suzy Says.

In  Intuitive Being: Connect with Spirit, Find Your Center, and Choose an Intentional Life Intuitive Medium Jill Willard’s teaches readers how to harness their internal intuitive power to achieve radical self-empowerment and spiritual awakening. Read on.  So Suzy Says.

The relentlessly positive media maven Oprah Winfrey is at it again.  This time, she is giving her fans tools to improve their lives through their kitchens in her new book Food Health & Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life .   In this tome Oprah shares how she’s able to enjoy her … Continue Reading

In the Sprinkles Baking Book Candace Nelson of Sprinkles Cupcake fame shares 50 Sprinkles cupcake recipes in all their variations, from true classics to new flavors created exclusively for the book. In addition, there are recipes for other classic fare plus stories about Nelson’s Sprinkles business. A fun read in the kitchen and out.  So Suzy Says.

Darcy Miller, celebrations expert extraordinaire, has produced the ultimate guide to making special occasions unforgettable. Make your events more joyous with Celebrate Everything.  So Suzy Says.

Supreme Court Justice – since 1993 – opines on a wide range of topics in her first book from the bench.  Subjects include gender equality, the work-ways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. A fine read regardless … Continue Reading

Dr. Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan’s 2 Weeks To A Younger Brain translates the latest brain science into practical strategies and exercises that can sharpen your mind in the short and long run. It will not only improve your memory, but will also strengthen your physical health by reducing your risk for diabetes, heart disease, … Continue Reading

A new book from Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette.  This tome focuses on Eleanor who decides to attend to the small things in her life but is hilariously sidetracked.  Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves … Continue Reading

Dr. Michael Greger’s (of NutritionFacts.org fame) book  How Not to Die; Discover the Food Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America-heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson’s, high blood pressure, etc.-and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, … Continue Reading

Reflections on those (regrettable) outfits and insights on personal style from Fashonista Amanda Brooks who has worked as a photo assistant for Patrick Demarchelier, a “gallerina” at the Gagosian Gallery, and at various fashion posts, before finding her dream job as fashion director for Barneys New York. A fun and useful read.  So Suzy Says.

Stephanie Danler’s instant bestseller, “Sweetbitter” is the story of twenty-two year old Tess who moves to New York and really gets an education through her low level job in a fancy restaurant.  A great page turner.  So Suzy Says.

It’s a state of mind, not just a number. So, instead of ‘faking it until you make it’ try reading this book and soon you’ll actually feel like an adult. So Suzy Says.

All of us know that we must be present to win – often literally but always metaphorically.  Amy Cuddy’s  book reveals, we don’t need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Instead, we need to nudge ourselves, moment by moment, by tweaking our body … Continue Reading

Best selling author Peggy Orenstein turns her research’s eye to  the sex lives of high school and college girls.  Orenstein looks below the media sensational coverage of ”hook up culture” and examines the ways in which porn and all its sexual myths have seeped into young people’s consciousness. What does it mean to be the “the … Continue Reading