Oprah Radio host Jean Chatzky talks to Martha Frankel about her struggle with her gambling addiction, chronicled in her book, Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling.

Read the first chapter from A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein, one of the titles from O's November 2009 Reading Room.

Mariane Pearl opens up about her sweet, unconventional love affair with slain Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl, the beauty of her husband's spirit, and the challenge to be hopeful no matter what.

Oprah Radio host Gayle King talks with Alice Gorman about her article in O, The Oprah Magazine on how she found love.

Read part of the first chapter from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.