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Peg: no, you are not alone. This kind of thread elicits no venom from anyone to anyone else, it also brings us closer to one another, helps us to see each other as real human beings, not just cyber avatars with irritating and opposing (to our) opinions! Whatever helps us to know each other...

Love this thread! And the fun posts from people on the "what's new?" front. So, I started a new job: Supervisor of the tasting room, and let's face it, the whole damn winery, at weekends, and tasting room main person other days of the week, of a winery in MI. It is a physically demanding...

Sneakers: My daughters suggest the following: 1. Echo Falls (3 books in series) by Peter Abrahams 2. Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz 3. Sally Lockhart mysteries by Philip Pullman, starts with The Ruby in the Smoke 4. Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator, 5 books in series, by Jennifer...

Jane: yes, to all of it! Congrats to you for that weight/fat loss and staying on charge of your health. Clare

I want to chime back in and give a shout out to all the books by Laura Lippman, one of my favourite authors of all time. Excellent writing. Superb plotting. I haven't read her new release yet, Wild lake, but just re-read one from 2 releases ago: "When she was Good". Stunning. A suburban...

We always want to slap Lydia and Kitty, no matter which version we read. Lydia, in this version, is more insolent than downright stupid, and the marriage she makes is not disastrous as the one to Wickham is in P&P. As for Mr Bennett, I find him as objectionable in his apathetic stance in this...

Sara de Vos: definitely sounds good. Tell us all when you are done! Clare

Sorry there hasn't been much from me on this thread lately. I just started a new job, my daughter came home from college, gardening season has begun (hooray!) and my mother arrived from UK for a visit. I am inundated, and reading time is literally the 10 mins before I fall asleep! I am...

I just bought a proper barre off Ebay, so this tower is not in my future. I would not be interested in these DVDs pitched to the audience so far being targetted. In future though, workouts made for her Cathlete audience would be of interest. If this news had been released a couple of weeks...

Be careful though. Tennis elbow (tendonitis) is not just the result of a lack of forearm strength. There are multiple factors. It can often occur with either a triceps muscle involvement or a biceps muscle involvement (or rather, from irritation of the tendons/ligaments attaching triceps...

I would say, 'yes.' It is an excellent program for all round good health. If you focus on increasing fitness while getting good rest and a nutritious diet, the fat loss will follow. Clare

Yeah, with Orange Theory, every workout is a competition. Mentally exhausting in the long run. I researched it a while back when I saw it advertised in my are and thought immediately, "no." Clare

All Out Low Impact HiiT from Xtrain, also Tabatacise. Do you own those? How about the HiiT DVD from a shock cardio series: it has 30/30, 40/20 and double wave pyramid workouts on it. You could also string together all the cardio HiiT intervals from ICE Bootcamp and Chiselled Lower Body in a...

Jane's response is the best! Clare

Ronne: War and Peace for light relief!! Thanks for reminding me about the mini-series. I need to get to that immediately, along with Wolf hall with Damien Lewis and Mark Rylance. Good to hear you liked, in its totality, the trilogy by Ferrante. Now I feels safer going into it, 'because...

Glad to hear you like Linda's KB workout. I have that one, haven't tried it yet. So, now, good things lie ahead! Paul Katami takes an innovative circuits approach with the kb that many people like. He has about 4 or 5 different workouts you could look at. Clips on Mary's site help...

'A God in Ruins' was excellent. Read that also this February, walking through the cold Michigan roads in the dark: it seemed a fitting time and climate to be reading about the pitiless deaths of men at war, scenes of the airships nonsensically ordered to fly under a full moon to drop bombs over...

Yes! I am all over this "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (it reminded me a lot of Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, except Harry does remember everything, whereas Ursula always forgot her previous lives)" Thanks for the suggestion! Clare

Peg: sweet lady, thank you! You made my day with these lovely words. They instill confidence at a time when I find myself needing more. Clare