It ain’t all about the cookin’... A few years back I read the Paula Deen Biography It Ain’t all About The Cookin’ Paula is a self made Food Network star, restauranter, author, & merchandise mogul. However her life has had some big bumps. In her book she speaks openly & candidly about her abusive husband, money troubles, crippling anxiety disorder, & her hard work to get where she is, all born out of a bag lady business. I loved...

  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 Voice of a popet... An amazing  series of audio books, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work.  This is a first in audiobook publishing. The only series of its kind that aims to enhance the experiance  of poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audio book includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliography, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet...

Eric Carle... I love all things Eric Carle! It is hard not to be enchanted with this colorful images & simply lovely stories. I have never met an Eric Carle book or picture that I didn’t like. It is that simple:)  He simply has a style all his own that will hols both you & your childs attention for years to come. These books make it on to my best books for story time list! Remember it is never too young to read to your...

Eat Pray Love... I am one of the millions of people that loved Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love. I picked up this book a few years ago when it was hot off the Oprah book club list. It sat in my stack of “to reads” for a while but once I picked it up I was instantly engaged.  What can  I say other than I loved it. I am not sure if it was the authors real life earthy writing style that I so identified with, or just...

Twilight... Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past year you have no doubt heard of the phenomenon that is the Twilight saga by author Stephanie Meyer. These books are not usually my type of reading, but they are on fire so I decided to give them a shot. I am currently in the third book of this series   after being turned on to them a few months ago.  I like millions of women quickly fell in love with the dynamic...

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...