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New from Harper-Collins (1)  My Glory Was I Had Such Friends  is a memoir, the story of a lawyer who needs a heart transplant at the tender, life-affirming age of 25. We tune in at 50 when she needs another. The first donor heart is failing quickly, symptoms painfully communicating that she is in trouble. Amy Silverstein's My Glory I Had Such Friends -- glorious The disease turns unbearable, and she has endured a great deal. This is an emotionally strong woman, but we all have our limits. Pain medication can kill her, slow her heart to a stop. She is going it alone, white knuckling pain. Not easy reading. But it is chick lit, and we love any book with the word "friends" in the title. And Amy has friends, many of them, amazing women who will leave their daily lives to travel across the country, tend to her when she needs them the most. How in the world does this happen? How are some people so blessed, or so lucky? Once I asked a man why he married his wife. He told me tha...

Me Before You: Joj We're already in gift-giving season. My favorites are the intangibles. Y esterday was Veteran's Day in the USA, and coincidentally, I had just finished reading Me Before You ., a book about disability. The story doesn't relabel disability as differently-abled . Will Traynor, before his accident, could do almost anything, but he no longer can.   My daughter-in-law tossed the book at me, had knocked it off in a day. But it seemed sophomoric, at first, took me awhile to get into. But when someone else really likes something, you try a little harder. The word in Hollywood is that  Emilia Clarke  of Game of Thrones will star in a coming movie as Louisa Clark, no relation, and Sam Claflin  of Hunger Games is a likely Will Traynor. So we'll keep the spoilers to a bare minimum.    Chick   lit , sure, but much to take away. Me Before You-Jojo Moyes Louisa Clark is an ordinary enough person, a r eally good person, the type of young a...