Crime and Clutter is A Friday Afternoon Club Mystery. A group of friends, who get together every Friday, learn about the secret past of one of their own. When they help her to discover who she really is...or who her father is...they are in for an adventure and learn a great lesson on forgiveness.
Although this book was a quick and fun read, the best part about it is the recipes. Every chapter gives you the recipe for what the characters or eating or talking about it. There is everything from homemade twinkees, beef stew, lavender lemonade to do it yourself air freshners. I am excited to try some of these new recipes. Especially Turkish Coffee and Biscotti!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Wow. That is what I have to say about Water for Elephants. Wow.
This book transports you back into the past and gives you a glimpse of what it was like during the depression working for a circus. Jacob, who is in his 90's (he can't remember how old he is), lives in a nursing home and flashes back to when he joined the circus. The pressure of the working man and the performer is astounding and the way that she writes really does give such a clear picture of what you are reading. I even had dreams about this book. I had to read it quick so I could just know how it ended.
I can say that this really is a fanscinating read and is on my top 10 of books to read. I can even look past the language, because it was just that good. I would love to go on and on about Water for Elephants but I know that I would give too much up...and to me there is just no way to stop when explaining it. READ THIS BOOK!
This book transports you back into the past and gives you a glimpse of what it was like during the depression working for a circus. Jacob, who is in his 90's (he can't remember how old he is), lives in a nursing home and flashes back to when he joined the circus. The pressure of the working man and the performer is astounding and the way that she writes really does give such a clear picture of what you are reading. I even had dreams about this book. I had to read it quick so I could just know how it ended.
I can say that this really is a fanscinating read and is on my top 10 of books to read. I can even look past the language, because it was just that good. I would love to go on and on about Water for Elephants but I know that I would give too much up...and to me there is just no way to stop when explaining it. READ THIS BOOK!
The Christmas Scrapbook by Philip Gulley
The Christmas Scrapbook is a laugh out story about a man who cannot give his wife a good gift...EVER. So when he comes up with a plan to make her a scrapbook of her life, he learns that he is in way over his head. His scrapbooking teacher is a scrapbooking nazi and he can do nothing right in her eyes. He even gets kicked out of class. But in the meantime, his wife, who doesn't believe the lie he tells her about where he is going on Wednesday nights, has an imagination that runs wild about what her husband is doing. The rumors fly around town and by the end, this man, a pastor in the community can not catch a break.
This is a short fun little read.
This is a short fun little read.
Into The Woods by Lynn Gardner
I saw this play about 15 years ago but really did not remember what it was about. When I saw the book in the children's section while getting books for my kids I thought, "I should read that." It was so good. It is a mixing a a few different fairy tales, it gives you the "real version" of how they are suppose to go and I loved this book. The heroine is a strong little girl who doesn't think that her mother loves her, but when she (the mother) dies, she gives her daughter a gift that on the outside looks like nothing much, but has the potential to save her world. She and her sisters are introduced to vivid characters and they are reminded that they should not judge by appearances. This really is a lovely story and I am excited to check it out again and read it to my three girls.
Monday, March 1, 2010
The Pregnancy Test by Erin McCarthy
I am a person who judges a book by it's cover. I know I shouldn't, but if it looks good on the outside, you know, fun, different, neat pictures, I choose it. Usually, I have done ok with this, but this time, the book was way different than what I usually read.
The Pregnancy Test is about a single girl in New York who finds that she has become pregnant by her older boyfriend, and he has no desire to have anything to do with her. She finds a new job and also finds her boss extremely attractive. As does her boss of her. It goes on from there...very descriptive sex scenes, which is a first for me...those really aren't the books I like. There is some suspence about the boss' first wife but to me, it was very unrealisitic. It made me keep saying to myself, "Really? That's pretty far fetched." And I even read a little to my husband, who shook his head first asking, "What in the world are you reading?" and then stating, "People really do not talk like that." I mean really...who uses the word clitoris on a regular basis?
Not my kind of writer or my kind of story. I do not need literary porn.
The Pregnancy Test is about a single girl in New York who finds that she has become pregnant by her older boyfriend, and he has no desire to have anything to do with her. She finds a new job and also finds her boss extremely attractive. As does her boss of her. It goes on from there...very descriptive sex scenes, which is a first for me...those really aren't the books I like. There is some suspence about the boss' first wife but to me, it was very unrealisitic. It made me keep saying to myself, "Really? That's pretty far fetched." And I even read a little to my husband, who shook his head first asking, "What in the world are you reading?" and then stating, "People really do not talk like that." I mean really...who uses the word clitoris on a regular basis?
Not my kind of writer or my kind of story. I do not need literary porn.
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