Status Updates From What She Ate: Six Remarkabl...

Intrepid Laura Shapiro is now reporting on Hitler's mistress.

Just as crazy as one might have expected! Except who would ordinarily bother to expect. Or care about.

Now that I finally completed that massive biography of George Washington, I'm ready to return to the stately prose and unleashed perceptiveness of Laura Shapiro.

Such an accomplished writer, yet she never shows herself to be breaking a sweat (as it were). Hooray!

I'm still having trouble renewing this book on Libby. However, the good news is, today I made it to the Loudoun Country Regional Library and checked out 10 audiobooks that look fabulous.

Thank goodness for public libraries!

Why the pause? I am still awaiting renewal from Libby. Lucky you, who've been able to finish this.

Family visited and I had the time of my life. Even superb books like this one pale by comparison.

I'm so grateful to you friends on Goodreads. You are a second kind of family to me. Wishing you a happiest yet kind of New Year.

Today I did almost no reading of books, almost no work, just visiting with family who are here from the West Coast, plus cooking and celebrating the goodness of close relationships.

Friends on Goodreads, I wish you that kind of happiness - whatever is your equivalent.

Libby took back the book. It was time.

Now I'll have to request it again. I sure will!!!!!!!

The connection between Eleanor Roosevelt and the food movement of feminists at Cornell University -- so important for transforming her into a woman who could find her place in the world.

And not just, as noted by Laura Shapiro, dress up and conduct small talk for the rest of her life.