Chosen: A Novel By Chandra Hoffman Published August 24, 2010 (Hardcover) Harper Seems I’ve been attracted lately to novels that, in some way, address babies and children. In a word – family! Chandra Hoffman’s novel, Chosen, seduced me instantly with the topic. There’s a sweet tone to the book – Chloe’s mostly – even though… Continue Reading
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If I Stay – A Lovely YA Book for Anyone Who Wonders
If I Stay By Gayle Forman Published April 2, 2009 (Hardcover) Dutton, and April 6, 2010 (Paperback) Penguin I remember the news story on which this novel, If I Stay, was based. Or at least one very like it. I have reported on dozens of tragedies during my years as a broadcast journalist. And, when… Continue Reading
If You’ve Ever Had to Say Goodbye Too Soon…
Heartbroken Open: A Memoir Through Loss to Self-Discovery By Kristine Carlson April 6, 2010 (Hardcover) HarperOne Never a good time to say goodbye. It’s just too damn hard. But what if you had the perfect family, the perfect life, and your partner was a universally-adored New York Times bestselling author who died at age 45… Continue Reading
Furious Love – Liz, Dick and The Lesson
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of The Century By Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger Published June 15, 2010 (Hardcover) Harper Elizabeth Taylor did not want to expose her personal love letters from Richard Burton to the world. That is, until serendipity graced co-authors of Furious Love Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.… Continue Reading
A Sweet Afternoon with the Author of Sweet Misfortune
Sweet Misfortune – and Interview with the Author Novel by Kevin Alan Milne Published June 10, 2010 (Hardcover) Center Street The first thing I learned during my interview today with Kevin Alan Milne on Open Book with Diana Page Jordan is that his last name is pronounced MIL-nee. And, the coolest thing I learned about… Continue Reading
What Was Your Mother Thinking…
What Was Your Mother Thinking…The Cause and Effect of Human Behavior and Remarkable Observations of the Physics of Energy and Nature By A. Christina Liczbinski 2009 (Paperback) Authentic Creations Books What legacy do you bear because of what your birth mother experienced while she was pregnant with you? Christina Liczbinski’s book What Was Your Mother… Continue Reading
What It’s Like to Talk Summer Reads on Martha Stewart Living
What’s it like to talk Summer Reads on Martha Stewart Living? Other than getting up at 4am to do so? Fabulous fun! I was on a bit after 5am – I got up at four to warm up my voice. Tip: lukewarm water on hand, and lion-like yawns. Scares the cats, though. The Sirius producer… Continue Reading
Do I Look Fat When I Read This Book?
Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything By Geneen Roth Published March 2, 2010 (Hardcover) Scribner More Info: Geneen Roth There have been only two sizes of clothes in my closet for the past twenty years – fours and smalls. You may conclude that I do not need to read a book… Continue Reading
Heart of the Matter – When One Moment Changes Everything
Heart of the Matter By Emily Giffin Published May 11, 2010 (Hardcover) St Martin’s Press More Info: Emily Giffin The exquisite premise of Heart of the Matter tugs hard. What was the moment when your life changed its trajectory? I know that moment in mine, and I had nothing to do with it. In Emily… Continue Reading
Healing Crystals – Amy Zerner and Monte Farber
Healing Crystals: Making Medicine Bags – Using Energy Stones By Amy Zerner and Monte Farber Published March 2, 2010 (Paperback) Sterling We can thank crystals for allowing us to sit before this screen and read the words that are transmitted. Scientist Marcel Vogel had a role in creating those crystals, and he also said this:… Continue Reading
What Makes A Guy Undateable? Ask Anne
Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do That Guarantee They Won’t Be Dating or Having Sex By Ellen Rakieten & Anne Coyle Published March 16, 2010 (Paperback) Villard Books Trade Paperback Original Hey, guys? Undateable is a public service! Really! That’s what Anne Coyle told me on Open Book with Diana Page Jordan today. Yep, Anne… Continue Reading
What It’s Like Talking to A Bestselling Author
Secrets of Eden By Chris Bohjalian Published February 2, 2010 (Hardcover) Shaye Areheart Books More Info: Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian is one of the smartest writers I know. And I know a lot of very smart writers. I’ve been interviewing bestselling authors – hundreds, maybe thousands of them – for more than twenty years. What… Continue Reading
Cleaving – The New Book by Julie of Julie & Julia
Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat & Obsession By Julie Powell Published December 1, 2009 (Hardcover) Little, Brown and Company I interviewed Julie Powell many years ago at a downtown Portland hotel. She was escorted in as if she were a princess, and, perhaps, in a way, she was. She’d hit the NY Times bestseller… Continue Reading
Love By the Numbers
Love By the Numbers: How to Find Great Love or Reignite the Love You Have Through the Power of Numerology By Glynis McCants Buy on Amazon Published November 11, 2009 (Hardcover) Sourcebooks Casanova More Info: Glynis McCants Glynis knows me as well as my best friends do – and we’ve only talked three times. Actually,… Continue Reading
Starter Marriage – Yup, Done That, Too
How To Get Divorced By 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage By Sascha Rothchild Published January 26, 2010 (Paperback) A Plume Original If you’ve known me awhile, you know I’ve been divorced nearly seven years from a man with whom I had two sons. But you may not know that I was married… Continue Reading
Advice from a Best-Selling Author – Interview
Winter Garden By Kristin Hannah Published February 2, 2010 (Hardcover) St Martin’s Press Kristin Hannah and I talked for more than a half-hour today, about Winter Garden and about writing and relationships, while locked up in the inner chambers of a Barnes and Noble bookstore in a Portland, Oregon suburb. We went deep, we dove… Continue Reading
Sexually, I’m More of a Switzerland
Sexually, I’m More of a Switzerland By David Rose Published on February 2, 2010 (Hardcover) Scribner It’s nearly Valentine’s Day, and I’ll put it out there. It would be nice to be some really great guy’s girlfriend. I was married all my post-college life. Until divorce, nearly seven-years ago. We’d gotten married on Valentine’s Day. … Continue Reading
How To Love – A Provocative New Book
How To Love By Gordon Livingston, MD Published May 25, 2009 (Hardcover) DaCapo Lifelong Books A famous author once said to me “You’ve never known real love, have you?” I’ll never tell who, but he was partially right. Not since I was four years old. It’s that desire to return to that real love that… Continue Reading
Girls!Tune Him In, Turn Him On
Tune Him In, Turn Him On: Using Intuition to Find and Keep the Man of Your Dreams By Servet Hasan Published December 1, 2009 (Paperback) Llewellyn Worldwide My son said yesterday, “Mom, you’re a witch.” Calmly. With love in his voice, so I knew he didn’t mean the Margaret Hamilton kind. I protested. “You are,”… Continue Reading
Cherries in Winter OR What Did You Do in the Recession?
Cherries in Winter: My Family’s Recipe for Hope in Hard Times By Suzan Colon Published November 3, 2009 (Hardcover) by Doubleday Powdered milk. The thin pale taste of it from my childhood hard times, colored my tongue as soon as I began reading Cherries in Winter: My Family’s Recipe for Hope in Hard Times. The… Continue Reading
Rev Up Your Life Workshop – with Authors’ Own Inspirational Words
No matter what has happened in your life, you can live the life you truly desire. You are genetically encoded with the desire to do what you are best-suited for — and the talents with which to achieve that purpose. The trick is discovering what that passion is. Tonight, I offered my Rev Up… Continue Reading
How To Find Love
By Christine Arylo Buy on Amazon Published February 2009 (Paperback) New World Library More Info: Diana Page Jordan’s Book Review Blog on Choosing ME Before WE: Every Woman’s Guide to Life and Love Christine Arylo knocked me out today on the air with this statement “If your relationship isn’t rock star before you get married,… Continue Reading
Mommy Doesn’t Drink Here Anymore
By Rachael Brownell Buy on Amazon Published August 2009 (Paperback) by Conari Press I love to drink. So I don’t. Drinking, when I was a teenager, allowed me to be as promiscuous as I wanted. Each me was on a different channel, and after I played, I changed the channel – so it wasn’t me… Continue Reading
Happy Divorce-iversary
Edited by Candace Walsh Buy on Amazon Published June 2009 (Paperback) by Seal Press “It’s our divorce-iversary,” my ex-husband tells the waitress. She smiles, confused. He persists, “We got divorced six years ago this week.” It wasn’t until today that I open up Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On, and… Continue Reading
Never Wear Stilettos at a Barbeque
By Julie Biuso Buy on Amazon Published April 2008 (Paperback) Julie Biuso Publications More Info: Sizzle Never a good idea to wear stilettos at a barbeque. I did tonight, and I ended up aerating the lawn of a very exclusive waterfront property near Portland, Oregon. Not to mention I ranged in height from 5’7″ to… Continue Reading
Home: May Your Walls Know Joy
by Mary Anne Radmacher Buy on Amazon Published August 1, 2009 (Hardcover) by Conari Press More Info: May Your Walls Know Joy Rarely have I felt safe in my own home. I made it safe for my children, but never for me. That’s a startling admission to myself. I only know it now — in… Continue Reading
How to Shop for a Husband
How to Shop for A Husband: A Consumer Guide to Getting a Great Buy on a Guy by Janice Lieberman and Bonnie Teller published May 12, 2009 (hardcover) by St. Martin’s Press It’s Friday night. What the hell am I doing home reading a book called How to Shop for a Husband? I am a… Continue Reading
Loose Girl
Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity by Kerry Cohen published June 2, 2009 (paperback) by Hyperion Healing hurts. I sign up for a double-whammy tonight. Rip open old wounds. The book I choose is Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity. I read three chapters, slip the book inside my enormous purple purse, and head for… Continue Reading
God Gets Snarky
Angry Conversations With God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir by Susan E. Isaacs published March 12, 2009 (hardcover) by FaithWords I’ve had WTF conversations with God, but never any snarky ones. Not like Susan Isaacs has in her book Angry Conversations With God. The subtitle is A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir. For one… Continue Reading
A Guide to Love
Choosing ME Before WE: Every Woman’s Guide to Life and Love by Christine Arylo published February 1, 2009 (paperback) Twice, I’ve been married. Love at first sight, both times. I was never single as an adult. Not until I got divorced five years ago. It makes me wonder, why the change in routine? This is… Continue Reading
