REVIEW: #80 The Handy Law Answer Book

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes Title: The Handy Law Answer Book Author: David L. Hudson Jr., JD ISBN: 978-1-57859-217-3 Pages: 450 Rating: Synopsis: (As taken from back of book) Everyday we encounter the rules of law — from the time we decide to get married, or perhaps divorced, to making purchases with our credit [...]

REVIEW: #72 Night By Elie Wiesel

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Night Author: Elie Wiesel IBSN: 0374500010 Pages: 120 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Weisel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, [...]

REVIEW: #59 YOU – Having a Baby

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Title: You – Having a Baby. The  Owner’s Manual to a Healthy and Happy Pregnancy Author: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz ISBN: 1416572368 Pages: 464 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) Can I get a cavity filled while pregnant? Will avoiding spicy foods make my kid a picky [...]

REVIEW: #42 Occult America

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Title: Occult America – How the Secret History of Mysticism Shaped our Natiion Author: Mitch Horowitz ISBN: 0553806750 Pages: 304 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) It touched lives as disparate as those of Frederick Douglass, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mary Todd Lincoln–who once convinced her husband, Abe, to host a [...]

Teaser Tuesdays: Occult America #Meme

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Call me a new age junkie if you will – but I love reading books on the history of religion.  I love reading about hidden/missing texts and all sorts of fun stuff like that (which I guess is why I enjoyed The DaVinci Code so much – because it [...]

REVIEW: #41 How NOT to Write a Novel

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: How NOT to Write a Novel Author: Howard Mittelmark ISBN: 0061357952 Pages: 292 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon) “What do you think of my fiction book writing?” the aspiring novelist extorted. “Darn,” the editor hectored, in turn. “I can not publish your novel! It is full of what [...]

In Honor of #NaNoWriMo: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Giveaway!

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes In honor of it being November, the infamous “National Novel Writing Month”, I am going to give away a FREE brand new copy of Eat, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss. The giveaway will run until Friday, November 6th 2009. The rules are VERY simple: – 1 point for [...]

Friday Firsts: A Book #Meme

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Blogger Meme: Friday Firsts All participants will have their entry tweeted about, so don’t forget to include your Twitter username if you want to be notified of your tweet mention! The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in [...]

REVIEW: #40 101 Habits of Hightly Successful Novelists

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Title: 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists- Insider Secrets from Top Writers Author: Andrew McAleer ISBN: 1598695894 Pages: 240 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) This title focuses on the behaviors necessary to succeed in the dog-eat-dog world of fiction writing by asking successful authors how they practice their craft. [...]

Shopping for the Writer in Me!

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes While hubby, daughter, and I were at the mall yesterday – I managed to drag them (kicking and screaming) into Barnes and Noble. I decided to choose some books in the non-fiction category (I guess you can say they are educational?) I needed some writing muse. EATS, SHOOTS & [...]

REVIEW: #19 A Cold-Blooded Business

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Title: A Cold-Blooded Business- Adultury, Murder, and a Killer’s Path from the Bible Belt to the Boardroom Author: Marek Fuchs ISBN: 1602392544 Pages: 201 Synopsis: (Taken from Inside Flap) In 1959, Olathe, Kansas was made famous by the murder of the Clutter family and Truman Capote’s ground-breaking book on [...]

REVIEW: #16 Surviving High Society

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes Title: Surviving High Society Author: Elizabeth Marvin Mulholland ISBN: B002KKCSQC Pages: 96 Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) As an adopted child into a rich CT family, I was given the best of everything…education, clothes, trips to Europe, golf and tennis lessons, two houses to live in and access to personalities [...]

REVIEW: #6 90 Minutes in Heaven

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Title: 90 Minutes in Heaven Author: Don Piper ISBN: 978-0-8007-5949-0 Pages: 205 Rating: Sypnosis: (Taken from back of book) On the way home from a conference, Don Piper’s car was crushed by a semi that crossed into his lane. Medical personnel said he died instantly. While his body lay [...]