Book Reviews

After attending a presentation by David Zyla at Saks last week on his new book, The Color of Style, I just had to leave with the book in hand. It seems everyone felt that way, as the books were nearly sold out by the end of the night. Zyla’s philosophy on style sounds simple: wear the colors that look the best on you, and avoid colors that are not flattering.

How's your posture? No really, this is important. Paul D'Arezzo, an emergency room physician for over twenty years, has been studying how people move and what makes them age. A lot of it comes back to posture. How we stand reveals a lot about how well we'll function as we get older.

This moving humanitarian adventure tale continues the story of building schools in remote villages of Pakistan and Afghanistan begun in Three Cups of Tea.

Still Alice is a heartwarming story of Alice, a 49 year old, highly intelligent, well-educated and successful woman who is diagnosed with Alzheimers. It begins with Alice forgetting simple things, and becoming disoriented in familiar places. By the end of the two-year period covered by the book, Alice doesn't always remember her family members, and is unable to work.

Haruki Murakami took up running in his early 30s. A heavy smoker, owner of a jazz club in Tokyo, he'd recently decided he wanted to write a novel. Three moderately successful novels later, he realized if he wanted to have a long life writing novels, he'd need to get healthy.

You've seen Julie and Julia, you've read Julia Child's memoirs, and your kitchen reeks of Boeuf bourguignon. If you're wondering what to do next, we have just the answer. Judith Jones, the woman at Knopf Publishers who saw the magic in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, has written a book.

Martha Beck is convinced that she gave birth to an angel. After reading her book, Expecting Adam, I'm a believer. Ms Beck goes into exquisite detail about her marriage, her pregnancy, and Adam, her son with Down syndrome: Revealing what she felt, thought and said about giving birth to Adam-hour by hour.

Stephen Post not only believes that it's better to give than to receive, he's put his money on it. As head of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love (IRUL), he funds studies and supports research on the behaviors and personality traits that lead to health and happiness.

When Judy and Tamara interviewed Jackie Waldman for the article Finding the Courage to Give, Jackie was kind to bring us copies of four of her books. As there are four of us, we each took one to review.