This book is yet another reminder of how good I have it. I had never considered what life was like for a woman before the Pill. While I had read books about women from before it's invention, such as The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique (okay, before most middle class women could easily get it p...
With the focus on ALS of late, thanks to the ice bucket challenge, I've heard Lou Gehrig's name more in the last few weeks than the entire previous year. Many people know little about the man, other than: 1) He had a horrific disease. 2) He played baseball. This is tragic, because he was a man who l...
I never knew anything about Lou Gehrig the man, other than that clip they play from Yankee Stadium.What an amazing man. I was weeping so much the last 20 pages, I literally had to put the book down because I couldn't see to read.