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...whereas in Eat, Pray, Love the journey was what mattered, the end of Committed is, as of page 18, a foregone conclusion. As Gilbert puts it, she and her lover are "sentenced to marry." This makes the book a supreme act of navel-gazing, even for a memoir. While the legal complexities are being worked out, the two kill time by traveling together. Along the way, Gilbert, ever the good journalist, gathers string on marriage and love from various sources, including the humble Hmong women of North Vietnam, seagulls, a humble frog-farming family in Laos and her humble...
...often forgotten presence of Harvard in this wild and crazy chapter of American history is really something. According to a review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Lattin’s book indicates that then-University President Nathan M. Pusey's '28 decision to fire Alpert and Leary essentially mandated that San Francisco (where the pair headed after leaving dainty old Cambridge) would be the holy seat of counterculture...
...write a lot about the mistakes of your first marriage. Did you write this book to serve as a sort of warning of the lessons you've learned? I don't think of the book as a cautionary tale and I don't think of it as an advice manual. I'm not really interested in drawing conclusions for other people's lives. Because it's hard enough to draw conclusions about my own marriage.(See the top 10 airplane books of all time...
...think your readers will react to the fact that you signed prenuptials in addition to publishing a book titled Committed? Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. Nobody gets married expecting that it will ever end. But sometimes it does. It was really important to both of us that we wouldn't be leaving these decisions for unsentimental strangers to make for us in a courtroom. (See the top 10 nonfiction books...
...diagnoses, doctors now wield an arsenal of 6,000 drugs and 4,000 procedures. But surgeon and author Atul Gawande says the very vastness of our knowledge gets in the way: doctors make errors because they simply can't remember it all. The solution, he outlines in his new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, isn't fancier technology or more training. It's as simple as an old-fashioned checklist, like those used by pilots, restaurateurs and construction engineers. When his research team introduced one in eight hospitals in 2008, major surgery complications dropped...