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Peg: thanks for the pm! Will reply soon! Clare

I have read all of Kate Morton's books. They are sweeping sagas, relying on deeply buried secrets and inquisitive characters to create and solve the mystery of each locale: river house, garden, etc, etc. Sadness lies at the heart of each, of course, since these are secrets that families and...

No idea ... I sent you a pm, see if you can respond to it. Otherwise, feel free to email me directly: Love to hear from you! Clare

Hi Peg: I have just ordered CeeCee from my local library and that author's second book, "Looking for me," so thanks! Tonight has been one of those evenings where, having put in 5 hours in the garden, 5 in the cooking department, everyone else is now in bed and I'm having a glass of wine while...

Rockem Sockem from ICE: it's a better workout than Hard Strikes anyway. If you don't own HS, I wouldn't buy it separately. I personally rank it as the least interesting of Cathe's kickbox workouts. I find it to be a workout that does not really know what it wants to be: the main 30 odd mins...

My latest recommendation is Cathleen Schine's "They May Not Mean To But They Do," where her title of course comes from Philip Larkin's poem "They fuck you up/your Mum and Dad/ they may not mean to/but they do..." No, this is not a grisly narrative of parental torture and suffering children...

Sorry, I forgot Mike Donavanik. He is excellent too. Seconding that reccie. Clare

Seconding Jengolf's suggestions and Stacy's. Yes to most anything by Patrick Goudeau actually: his metabolic conditioning workouts are extreme but he's a fun guy while you are doing it so I find him really encouraging. So, there's Lean Hot Body, and Hard Work Conditioning 2 I think, and also...

Gobias: Great post. Working out at home = 'cute.' Grrrrrrr! They wonder how you can keep up with him. How patronizing. Society is orchestrated to prop up fragile male egos. And thank you for the personal note. You understand exactly. Thank you. Clare

Dirt Diva: we were all naive back in the day. Judging from the disrespect and contempt with which I have been treated recently by my dear husband, who prioritizes our 3 cats over me, I made the biggest mistake of my life when I married him. I should have just had the baby and stayed a single...

I'm with Dirt Diva, and well, with all of you really! This is the age when the natural arrogance and over self-confidence that men grow up with does them a terrific disservice. My husband still thinks that secretly, he's still 32 and is slim and fit and healthy and has the metabolism of a...

https://cathe.com/forum/threads/floor-work-barre-rotation-new-rock-bottoms-rotation.307005/#post-2403239 Read through this thread also and see what you think. It discusses another approach to defining the legs and lower body and might be of interest to you. See what poohpeggy has to say for...

Well, I have read Jen's blog review and watched both clips. The Edgy Booty workout is on the expensive side for what you get. The youtube materials from Redfiningstrength.com look to be free. I don't see much, if anything, in the Edgy Booty that Cathe does not already have in her workouts...

Yep! These workouts are the most fun. Clare

Laura: a few years ago I invested in a weight/squat rack and last year I got a barre, so I am using these 2 pieces of equipment to handle ALL the moves that the Fit Tower makes possible. There are ways to work it without buying every single piece of equipment. Any ballet barre for the barre...

I should add, I also read The Expatriates recently and really enjoyed it. It took me a little while to get the point, but then I was hooked. A tale of mothers, of daughters also, but of women encountering each other as mothers and women also, and learning to like, love, learn and forgive each...

I'm just about to finish Anna Quindlen's "Rise and Shine." I realized, after starting it, I had read it before, but it reads like new all over again and the writing is of excellent quality. Anna does not publish every year and thank god for that: unlike authors who churn them out, her...

Yes! Glass Castle is an all-consuming book. A must-read for all. I agree with Peg: a roller coaster of emotions .... Clare

Hi Peg: I have read and can second your recommendation for all the following: Wife 22 ( a delight, pure fun), The Passenger (great to listen to while on the move, loved the BOCD version from the library), Tell the Wolves I'm Home (highly original, deeply moving), Where'd you Go Bernadette...

Yesterday I was privileged to have Jo Nesbo come to Ann Arbor, MI to chat about his life, rock band, books, writing and latest release "Thirst," #11 in the Harry Hole mystery series. The man was funny, intellectual, drop-dead gorgeous, something of a Renaissance man and I can highly recommend...