The Reading Space - November

November 1, 2007 | 1 Comment

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value - Ben Johnson

Songs Without Words - by Ann Packer

Songs Without Words - Ann PackerLiz 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

Don’t Drink and Dial by K Palmer and C ZeiglerOur 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

Tea Bliss by Theresa CheungIn 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…

Posted by marjorie | Filed Under November07, Reading Space 

Reading For A Fresh Start

October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A fresh start needs PASSION!

This is why I have chosen Jamie Durie’s ‘Inspired’. The man oozes it as he talks about his! Whether you’re starting on a fresh garden or another chapter in your life you need passion…

Jamie Durie InspiringThis hard cover coffee table book traces the inspirations and influences behind Jamie Durie’s award–winning garden landscape designs. From his travels through Asia, Africa and the Middle East, to nature, wellbeing and the environment, it shows how he translates these inspirations into remarkable spaces for outdoor living.

Featuring over 20 new garden designs – from small and intimate courtyards to community–use spaces, Jamie Durie Inspired is a stunning addition to the Jamie Durie design collection.

A fresh start needs MOTIVATION!

And what better than spiritual – start on the inside and you’ll be laughing, literally! 

Tolle - A New EarthEckhart Tolle’s first full length book in eight years will be a cornerstone for personal spirituality and self-improvement for years to come. Taking off from the introspective work he began with ‘The Power of Now’, the number one bestseller that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live.

Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow. Eckhart Tolle is one of the bestselling spiritual teachers of our time.

The simple message in his international bestseller ‘The Power of Now’, that of living in the present, of enjoying the journey rather than always looking to the next goal, has spread fast. A wise counsellor in this ever changing, chaotic and often violent world, Tolle draws on essential spiritual teachings of all ages and traditions to reveal a fresh evolutionary model of spiritual life for the 21st Century.

A fresh start needs Creativity!

Start the creative juices flowing - wrap some of the gifts that you have to give…

Gift WrappingThink contemporary, upscale and sophisticated - Gift Wrapping will teach you how to make a wrapping as memorable as the wrapping itself. Gift Wrapping has become big business, as busy people flock to the gift-wrapping departments of their favourite stores or to high-end personal gift wrappers. Now you can replicate the techniques and secrets of expert wrappers at home! This book is for anyone with a fine eye for detail, who always insists on the finishing flourish.

Through step-by-step projects, author Christine Fritsch demonstrates how to wrap regular and oddly-shaped gifts beautifully and creatively. In Fritsch’s world, no gift is too large, too long, or too round to be wrapped in a unique and imaginative way. The author also includes an assortment of styling tips, techniques and advice on materials, including neat paper folding, making bows and finishing edges which will take your gift wrapping skills to new levels.

All these elegant and clever ideas are shown through beautiful photographs of finished wraps and detailed, dynamic, step-by-step illustrations.

Posted by marjorie | Filed Under October07, Reading Space 

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