Monday, May 19, 2014

Six top books about being a woman

Writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh is a contributing editor to The Atlantic, host of the syndicated radio show The Loh Down on Science, and the author of several books including the newly released memoir, The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones. One of her six favorite books about being a woman, as shared at The Week magazine:
Where Love Goes by Joyce Maynard

A divorced mom pushes her cart in a grocery store, fantasizing about a passionate man who will throw her down and love her wildly. Miraculously, there is such a man in the very next aisle. Will they meet? Will he woo her? How could it go wrong? This is a page-turner I read every few years about the desires, mistakes, and complexities of midlife. Never gets old.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue