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?...

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...

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 am a big Dan brown fan & have eagerly waited on the sequel to the Da vinci Code. Unfortunately not all of us get sneak peaks like big box store reviewers get such as the one I recently read at Barnes & Noble.  I will be reading this one, as everything I have allowed my imagination engage in from Dan brown has always delivered! However I have to wait until September like everyone else so in the mean time...

The Great Castle of Marshmangle... Written by Malacha Doyle Illustrations by Paul Hess First I have to say what beautiful illustrations. Hess has matched Doyle’s words, illustration by illustration. Doyle, the author has created a magical world, where the normal is made magical with a new and imaginative name. “Fortywink Cockpit” is a bed, “Sandcastle Stompers” are shoes and “Brainbox Banana” is a yellow hat...

Notes To Myself – by Hugh Prather... Reading Notes To Myself is one of those rare experiences that comes only once in a great while. The editor who discovered the book said, “When I first read Prather’s manuscript it was late at night and I was tired, but by the time I finished it, I felt rested and alive. Since then I’ve reread it many times and it says even more to me now.” The book serves as a beginning for the reader’s...

Johnny Got His Gun – by Dalton Trumbo... Written in 1938 and published 1939, Trumbo’s, ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ is a classic example of the insanity and casualties of war. Over the years since I first read Trumbo’s anti-war masterpiece, I have come to understand the importance of the novel and find myself thinking of it often and it’s relevance to today’s world conflicts. When I first read the novel, it left me feeling numb...

A Thump From Upstairs: Starring Mr. Boo And Max &#... My four year old nephew picked “A Thump From Upstairs: Starring Mr. Boo And Max” out from a large pile of books on sale at our locale book store during a shopping excursion recently. I promptly chose to read it to him and my niece during lunch and to my surprise, they both loved it!  Enthralled in Keep’s lively prose, I had both of their attention and curiosity with what was going to happen next. “A...

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand... One of my favorite all times books is The Fountainhead which opens with “Howard Roark laughed. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. ” Words which made me want to know who Howard Roark was and why was he standing naked at the edge of a cliff? I know the answers now and encourage you to find out for yourself. The story follows the life of Howard Roark, an architect, and several people he interacts with, including...