Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature

by Zibby Owens

Dudley Moore’s Crazy People,

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath both captivated me with their tales of psychiatric descent and resurrection.

Paco Underhill’s Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping.

Heartburn by Nora Ephron and

What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence in 2019.

“Portraits of Grief.”

Good Grief by Lolly Winston came

Shopgirl by Steve Martin, The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw,

Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand, French Lessons by Peter Mayle.

Good enough would have to do. Not everything could be perfect.

So true and one of the maxims i lead, manage and live by.

It was one of the most important lessons I learned at business school.

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi,

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan.