Jan 5, 2024 — Here’s hoping you’ve enjoyed reading through the 32 new cards released New Year’s Day, and had a happy first week of what promises to be a momentous year.
It was fun receiving this welcome nudge from Contributing Cardie Rosemary Tolliver. “My daughters gave me Lucinda Riley’s book, The Seven Sisters, and I’ve just started reading this first in a series about seven sisters named after the Pleiades. Makes me eager to read the new year’s edition of our Cardie community’s reading recommendations ; )”
And here you have it! The list has grown so enticingly long over the years that we’ve set up this Cardie Reading List to which we can all return again and again when looking for book recommendations. To suggest a book, comment below or email [email protected].
I just added An Apothecary of Art to Soothe Your Soul by Lisa Azarmi. Filled with art and poetry from the world’s masters, it’s credited with being an “essential dispensary of paintings and prose to boost your mental wellbeing.” My copy was a sumptuous gift from Contributing Cardie and neighbor friend Liza Greenberg. More than a book to read, it’s one to savor … so much so that I gave our CEO Ana a copy, too.
From this treasure of a book, below we’ll leave you with one quote that stands out as just right for these times. So glad and grateful that you shine so brightly!
Jodee Stevens
Founder & Chief Creative
Jan 5, 2024 — Here’s hoping you’ve enjoyed reading through the 32 new cards released New Year’s Day, and had a happy first week of what promises to be a momentous year.
It was fun receiving this welcome nudge from Contributing Cardie Rosemary Tolliver. “My daughters gave me Lucinda Riley’s book, The Seven Sisters, and I’ve just started reading this first in a series about seven sisters named after the Pleiades. Makes me eager to read the new year’s edition of our Cardie community’s reading recommendations ; )”
And here you have it! The list has grown so enticingly long over the years that we’ve set up this Cardie Reading List to which we can all return again and again when looking for book recommendations. To suggest a book, comment below or email [email protected].
I just added An Apothecary of Art to Soothe Your Soul by Lisa Azarmi. Filled with art and poetry from the world’s masters, it’s credited with being an “essential dispensary of paintings and prose to boost your mental wellbeing.” My copy was a sumptuous gift from Contributing Cardie and neighbor friend Liza Greenberg. More than a book to read, it’s one to savor … so much so that I gave our CEO Ana a copy, too.
From this treasure of a book, below we’ll leave you with one quote that stands out as just right for these times. So glad and grateful that you shine so brightly!
Jodee Stevens
Founder & Chief Creative
This will be a perfect birthday gift for artist friends of over 60 years. We’ve been together since we were in our twenties and now we are grand and great grand mothers. Thank you for this recommendation.
Here’s another lovely little read: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney. A feel good story we can all appreciate.
I’m going to recommend a children’s book. It’s “From Anna,” by Jean Little. My mother first checked this out from the library for me when I was home sick with asthma in grade school. Since then, I’ve bought my own copy (and copies for two nieces) and take it out to read a couple of times every year. This past year, when my mother wasn’t able to get out and walk, as we usually do, I brought it down for her to read. I think she loved it as much as I do. No one is too old to enjoy this story. It’s well written and goes right to the heart.
A couple fiction books I’ve recently read and liked very much:
The Berry Pickers – Amanda Peters
A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself-Katherine Howe
Non-Fiction: The Book of (More) Delights – Ross Gay (if you like essays-these were lovely )
The Exceptions – Kate Zernike As a woman in science this book was of great interest to me. It basically tells of the women faculty who
fought for equality at MIT. They actually got MIT to admit that they had a policy of discrimination against women in science.
Wow! That was fast… but I’ve already opened the second of Lucinda Riley’s Seven Sisters books, The Storm Sister. Thank you for letting us know about The Apothecary of Art; it sounds lovely.