First Things First... Kurt Warner is the two-time NFL MVPwinning quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. Brenda Warner is an ex-Marine turned stay-at-home mom who collects coats for low-income kids and rocks babies to sleep at a hospital for chronically-ill infants. Together theyre the parents of seven, going into their 12th year of marriage, and founders of a foundation that helps disadvantaged children and families. Their formula for success?...

The Other Boleyn Girl... One of the most wrenching stories I have read in a while. This book both compelled & disturbed, but all the while held my attention. When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both the golden prince and her growing role as an unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family’s...

When A Favorite Book Becomes A Movie... We all have them, those books that take you back to a place & time when things were warm & fuzzy & full of possibilities. For me one of those books is Where The Wild Things Are. I read this book countless times as a child, I read It to my kids & I have reviewed it on this blog. So when I saw the preview for the movie due out on October 16th you can imagine my excitement. At first I was so elated to take...

Top 50 books of all time... The other day I came across a new site that compiled a list of the top 100 novels of all time. After a review of the list I tend to agree with most of their selections. While there are some I have never read. most are classics & well known. This got me thinking. What would my list look like? What would your list look like? The great thing about theses list is that by in large they are compiled based on opinions. As...

Let The Great World Spin... Colum McCann has worked exquisite magic with Let the Great World Spin, a novel of electromagnetic force that defies gravity. It’s August 1974, a summer when Watergate and the Vietnam War make the world feel precarious. A stunned hush pauses New York City as a man on a cable walks repeatedly between the World Trade Center towers. This extraordinary feat becomes the touchstone for ten stories that briefly submerge...

I Love You Forever... A young woman holds her newborn son and looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him “I’ll love you forever I’ll like you for always As long as I’m living My baby you’ll be.”  This book written by Robert Munsh is a timeless story of a mothers love for her son as he grows from an infant to a man, & then his love for his mother as he becomes a father. It was given to me as a gift...

Christine’s books to read and review –... Here is a list of the books I plan on reading and reviewing in the coming months. Please share your recommendations of good reads in the comments section. I look forward to your input. Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story by David Einhorn, Joel Greenblatt Michelangelo and The Pope’s Ceiling by...