Title: The Feminine Mystique Author: Betty Friedan Number of Pages: 395 Original Published Date: 1963 Definition: “The Feminine Mystique says that the highest value and only commitment for women is the fulfillment of their own femininity…and that the root of women’s troubles in the past is that women envied men, women tried to be like…
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I Made a Simple Soap
More than a decade ago, I experimented with making my own soap with some success. My goal wasn’t to try and sell them or become the best soap maker ever, but simply to create something useful that was healthier on my skin than what I was buying at the local drug store. After experimenting for…
My Takeaways from How Not to Age
Title: How Not to Age Author: Michael Greger Number of Pages: 601 Original Published Date: 2023 I’ve been a watcher and follower of the website and YouTube page NutritionFacts.org for many years now. Their short-form video summaries of research studies and nutrition data packed into easy-to-understand parlance are informative and enjoyable. All of their videos…
Tales of the South Pacific
Title: Tales of the South Pacific Author: James A. Michener Number of Pages: 359 Original Published Date: 1946 Pulitzer Prize Winner (Fiction): 1948 Favorite Sentence(s): Each man who lay on Hoga Point bore with him to his grave some promise for a free America. Now they were gone. Who would take their places? Tales of…