by Debra Darvick | Sep 1, 2013 | Bookshelf, Read the Spirit
With Rosh Hashana arriving Wednesday night, and being one of the People of the Book, I thought that it would be good to begin the new year 5774 with three book reviews. Come back next Monday and Wednesday for two more. When I received a review copy of With a Mighty...
by Debra Darvick | Jul 8, 2013 | Bookshelf, Musings, Read the Spirit
I had no idea what I would write about Tisha B’Av (the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av) when my publisher suggested that I write a column as we near the annual observance. He planned to excerpt on the Read the Spirit website the Tisha B’Av story from my book This...
by Debra Darvick | Jul 1, 2013 | Bookshelf, Read the Spirit
Don’t know what made me pick up Kristin Barnett’s memoir The Spark: a mother’s story of nurturing genius. Maybe it was her son’s cute face peeping over the title a la the old Kilroy-way-here grafitti. Or maybe it was just the first few...
by Debra Darvick | Jun 3, 2013 | Bookshelf
Discovered a new author, new to me anyway, when I was poking around the Well Red Coyote book store some months back. Novelist Linda Olsson divides her time between her native Stockholm, Sweden, and Auckland, New Zealand. Amidst all that back and forthing she writes...
by Debra Darvick | Feb 13, 2013 | Bookshelf, Writing Life
I am thrilled to share with you that my first book, This Jewish Life: Stories of Discovery, Connection and Joy, has just been rereleased by a new house — Read the Spirit Books, the publishing arm of ReadtheSpirit.com. As with weddings, there is something old...
by Debra Darvick | Dec 25, 2012 | Bookshelf
I’m one of the lucky ones, able to read, knit, do crossword puzzles in a car. As the passenger, mind you. A recent jaunt to Pittsburgh to visit my brother, sister-in-law and their darling eight-month-old, promised nearly ten hours of reading there and back. Down...
