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5 Books I Can’t Live Without: Ilene Beckerman, Author of The Smartest Woman I Know

5 Books I Can’t Live Without:  Ilene Beckerman, Author of The Smartest Woman I Know

Ilene Beckerman’s writing career began at the age of sixty when she wrote the memoir Love, Loss, and What I Wore. The book has been adapted to an Off-Broadway play that has been a great success. She wrote three more books before recently publishing The Smartest Woman I Know (see my review). Beckerman says of her late-blooming writing success, “Oprah did a profile of me, my books have been translated into many languages I can’t speak, … Read entire article »

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Posts Distilled: Recent Authors

Posts Distilled:  Recent Authors

Happy Sunday, and Happy Halloween! If you live on the East Coast, I hope you survived the nor’easter.  I’m happy to report (gloat?) that we got no snow here on the South Shore of Long Island. I’m pretty thrilled about that. I’m sure there will be plenty of snow this winter, if last winter was any indication. Forums Head on over to our new Forums to discuss your favorite recent reads at The Book Circle (this month we’re … Read entire article »

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Smartest Woman I Know

Book Review and GIVEAWAY:  The Smartest Woman I Know

  Head on over to the Book Circle to discuss The Night Circus, The Paris Wife, and Turn of Mind!   Ilene Beckerman burst onto the writing scene with her book Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which she wrote and illustrated and which is now a successful Broadway play. Her new book, The Smartest Woman I Know, is the story of Beckerman’s Jewish grandmother, with whom she lived from age twelve to age eighteen.  Known to Beckerman as … Read entire article »

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