July 2015. We're back

So, after a long hiatus I am back in the book club business. After our trips and various dramas of the summer.

Yonatan: On the Move: A Life

Sacks, Oliver

A great new autobiography by the famous doctor/scientist/london jew Oliver Sachs. Now facing death from a rare cancer he writes about his adventurous life in a new light. I hope that it will appeal to you at least out of interest of all the great men he has known.

Noam: Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

Mann, Sally.

This is really for both of you, a memoir about her life in the South, written by a photographer and illustrated by her pictures. I have had my eye on it for you for some time. I think that you will both enjoy it.

Dalia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)

C. S. Lewis

As you may or may not know I am putting together a library of great children's books in hardcover for Dalia. Daci said that she has enough infants books to stock a public library so these are for the future. I am using a guide to the best 50 children's books of all time and buying them at one a month in the nicest illustrated editions I can find.

She already has Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland at our house, by the time I am finished she will be 4 and have at least a copy of all the classics.

March 2015 renewing the posts

The past few months:


It has been a while since I have written any posts here, and there has been a short gap in the book sending, but now we have a new member of the Platt book of the Month club and I will begin getting a book for Dalia every month so she will have a whole library when she is ready.

I don't get books for Gil, he has access to my Amazon account and seems to be on a book of the week program.

March's choices:

Dalia:

I am sure that Daci and Yoni already have books but I will keep these coming, we have also kept all those books we read and reread to our children, an almost complete set of the Berenstain bears etc...

Noam:  The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.

I think that both Noam and Catie will enjoy this, soon to be a film staring Helen Mirran.

Yonatan: The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis

A combination of microbiology and fighting Nazis, what could be better, strongly recommended by Noam.