The Reading Space - November
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value - Ben Johnson
Songs Without Words - by Ann Packer
Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever, childhood neighbours bound together in adolescence by a devastating event, the suicide of Sarabeth’s mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the decades that followed - through Liz’s marriage and the birth of her children, through Sarabeth’s depressions and her volatile love affiars - their relationship has remained a source of continuity and strength, a fixed point amid the tumult of their adult lives.
But when an unforeseen calamity strikes at the heart of Liz’s family, all the assumptions - the deepest habits of their friendship - are revealed in a strange new light, and Liz and Sarabeth must question everything they thought they knew about each other and themselves.
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world - Eleanor Roosevelt.
Don’t Drink and Dial: and other secrets of female friendship - Kimberley Palmer & Caitlin Zeigler
Our girlfriends are our partners in crime, our confidantes and our greatest defenders. THey save us from bad fashion, support us through stressful periods and are our regular drinking partners.
Yet sometimes the field of female friendship can be littered with landmines. Don’t Drink and Dial imparts genuine, truthful, and often hilarious advice about how to treasure and respect your very best allies. (Out in November ‘07)
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies - Aristotle
Tea Bliss: Infuse your life with health, wisdom and contentment - Theresa Cheung
In this stress-filled world, tea offers a simple antidote to just about everything, as author Theresa Cheung posits in her marvellous new book Tea Bliss. Sit down. Have a cuppa. Not only is it a delightful way to spend a few moments with yourself or a friend, but drinking various kinds of tea can also help you fight cancer, lose weight, and even remain more youthful!
“Taking tea” simply demands a break from dull routines and requires you to slow down, savour and reflect on the world around you as well as the world inside you. Illustrated throughout with four-colour photographs, “Tea Bliss” is a warmhearted, comforting book that described the arts of blending and brewing tea as well as the performance of ritual tea ceremonies.
Chapters include “Tea for Two” on the positive effect tea has on friendship, and “Well Being” on how invaluable tea can be to an individual’s health, as well as a glossary of terms and a veritable encyclopedia of every type of tea. Blending inspiration and sumptuous illustrations with fascinating facts about tea, “Tea Bliss” is an ideal and relaxing gift.
People always come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is you’ll know exactly what to do…
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Marj
After reading the review for Songs Without Words, I’ve just gone straight over and added it to my reading list on http://www.slimink.com.au.
Thanks for flagging the kind of book I usually really like to read.