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?...

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...

Marley & Me...  John Grogan hit a major heart string & jack pot when he decided to write a book about the loveable ti rant Marley. Marley was Johns Yellow male Lab, that gave him love & a wonderful story. I loved this book for a few reasons but, mostly I like John Grogans writing style & plan to read his new book The Longest Trip Home ( See review later) And I also have a lovable slab of yellow Lab that has done a lot of...

Rough Magic by Paul Alexander... Sylvia Plath  became infamous after her suicide  in 1963 and is celebrated for her poetry and semi-autobiographical, The Bell Jar. Plath’s troubled life gives Alexander much to interpret  as he  creates a water color portrait of a great  American poet. Alexander achieves this feat by “conducting some three hundred individual interviews with people who knew Plath” who he states ” a number of...

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists... Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs were not the only “beats”. Not as widely know as their male counterparts, Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman, and Madeline Gleason were all instrumental to the beat movement. Knight’s book attempts to rectify this oversight by profiling these women and others of the Beat generation and publishing samples of their work. Just as the men did, these women wrote poetry, went...