Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
The Bachelor by Carly Phillips My rating: 2 of 5 stars Ah, I should have known better than to pick up a romance book. These just are not me 🙂 But it was in the pile given to me years ago and my compulsive nature would not let me skip it. Learned my lesson -... Continue Reading →
The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory by David Plouffe My rating: 5 of 5 stars A behind the scenes at what was an historic Presidential campaign as told by the fellow who put it all together. David Plouffe tells the story of putting his life on hold... Continue Reading →
The Forgotten (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #13) by Faye Kellerman My rating: 3 of 5 stars As far as I can remember, I think this is the first of Faye Kellerman's books I've read, but I will seek her out again. Very fun read, well well well developed and interesting characters. In fact, I like how... Continue Reading →
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq by Greg Mitchell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am saddened to say that I discovered the fabulous Editors & Publishers website *just* before it closed shop. It is being re-launched under the same name, but without the brilliant editor... Continue Reading →
The Deadly Trade: A Novel by Ken Morris My rating: 3 of 5 stars Fun, easy read. For some reason I just love books with short chapters. Probably because I often only have 30 mins to read and I know I can always make it through the end of a chapter. I think I referred... Continue Reading →
Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It by Jill Richardson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have to confess first to being a personal friend of Jill. Though, it is her writing which attracted me 😉 As she mentions in the book, she got... Continue Reading →
Stealing from Twitter again - this time the Breaking News feed: Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has signed on as a contributor to the Fox News Channel Mark McGwire admits using steroids when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998 This is not really BreakingNews' fault of course, but - DUH!!!!!!!!!! I'm not... Continue Reading →
Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly I decided to start the year with something easy - short stories (a collection of his Sports Illustrated columns from '01-'07) by one of my favorite authors ever. Anytime you combine a sarcastic wit, Hallmark Card sentiment style & love of... Continue Reading →
Yes, I know that when the Chinese New Year hits, it will really be the Year of the Tiger (Amber is all dressed and ready for THAT!) but for me it will the Year of the Book. A personal challenge to read one book a week. 52 for the year. I'll list them here when... Continue Reading →
That title is probably an exaggeration because if it was the worst book ever I would simply have put it down and not plodded through to the end. Except that perhaps I did stick it out because I felt obligated to since so many August moms were talking about it and saying it will enhance... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 