Hello all,

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate and for everyone else, happy long weekend!

Based on suggestions at last week's bookclub, the next book will focus on women & careers. I have included a couple of suggestions below. Books on women and career, aside from biographies on a single woman generally fall into two categories: a) strategies for being successful in your career including balancing family and career and b) accounts of women who have been successful with insights into their "secrets for success". Please indicate your preference for a or b and/or if you are interested in either of the books below and if you have any suggestions for titles.

1. More Than 85 Broads: Women Making Career Choices, Taking Risks, and Defining Success - On Their Own Terms: Women Making Career Choices, Taking Risks, and Defining Success -- On Their Own Terms by Janet Hanson
Meet Trailblazers who need no roadmap or formula for success-just their own optimism, confidence, and gut instincts. Meet Adventurers who push past boundaries and find new ways to define success for themselves. Meet Parents who are building true partnerships rather than just “balancing” their lives and careers. And meet Visionaries who are answering the questions: “What's my passion?” “What's my destiny?” “What's my gift?”

Whether you're striving to align your passion with your career, standing at a crossroads deciding which path to choose, or well on the road to fulfilling your lifelong dreams, you can tap into the enormous power and potential of “some of the most incredible women on the planet” and . . .

Discover how building a strong network gives you your own unique platform for creating new opportunities, connections, and personal definitions of success.
Learn how women are blazing their own trails as business leaders, entrepreneurs, survivors, philanthropists, and parents.
Find out how smart, successful and courageous women really think about their careers, their lives, their families, and their futures-all in their own voices.

2. Career bliss: secrets from 100 women who love their work By Joanne Gordon
Author Joanne Gordon has identified three universal themes and ten categories of happy working women, demonstrating the core reasons of their fulfillment. There are The Lovers, women whose work champions a personal passion; The Thinkers, who thrive on intellectual challenge; The Surviving Artists, who make a sustainable living from a creative endeavor; The Determinators, who feed a need for control and influence; The Heroines, who work to change the world; and The Builders, who enjoy building a company, a team, or a product from the ground up.

Each of Gordon’s interviewees fits into one of these groups–everyone from actress Stockard Channing, broadcast journalist Lesley Stahl, and songwriter Diane Warren to everyday women who work as a screwdriver manufacturer, a truck driver, and a hospital clown. Gordon tells each their stories and reveals why each woman is happy with her choice–and how readers can achieve the same happiness in their own working lives.