About the Blogger: Maureen Mackey
Maureen Mackey is Features Editor, Books, at Reader’s Digest magazine, where she’s worked for the past 8 years on some of the finest nonfiction being published today. She has nearly 25 years of experience scouting, selecting and excerpting books and has worked closely with some of the top authors in the business, including Rick Bragg, Tom Brokaw, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Mary Roach, Walter Isaacson, Mary Higgins Clark, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Stephen Covey.
Maureen’s writing has appeared in Reader’s Digest, The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, and she’s a graduate of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. In her Book Fare blog, she brings an inside look at books.
Looking over your list, checking it twice? Here, some suggestions for making the hurdle
of holiday gift-giving a little easier to overcome.
1. HIGHEST DUTY: My
Search for What Really Matters by Captain Chesley "Sully"
Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow
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I am the nagging mother who says to my kids, when their homework is done and their daily obligations finished, "Read a book!"
Because they are in the throes of teenagedom (or one of them is, anyway, with the other not far behind), I sometimes get the
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Yesterday True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy (Twelve Books, $35) landed with a thud in my office.
It weighs in at 534 pages, and billed as the Senator's complete memoirs of his life and times, it's clearly poised to be one of the biggest books
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For a fun, funny read (and I mean laugh-out-loud funny), check out The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A. J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster), on sale today.
Jacobs, a 40-something married guy with kids living in New York City, shares a
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Years ago I gave a friend a book of short stories called Self Help by Lorrie Moore. She liked it so much she decided to read it aloud to a friend who was dying of cancer.
Every day, she read a little bit to this woman until they finished it.
Along
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Out of the San Francisco Bay area of California over the past few days comes the riveting case of a young woman found 18 years after her abduction while waiting for the morning school bus.
Then, Jaycee Dugard was 11 years old, a fifth grader, blond and
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Most of us can only dream of 4-star attention from the wait staff at restaurants.
But it happened countless times to Frank Bruni, restaurant critic for the New York Times from 2004 to the present, as he recounts in his excellent and entertaining new
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With the sad news this morning of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's passing, here are 4 quotes in honor of the Kennedys, spoken by John F. Kennedy, 35th President.
They're collected in a jam-packed new book of quotes on a range of subjects--everything from
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