REVIEW: #59 YOU – Having a Baby
February 4, 2010 by Allison
Filed under Non-Fictional, Pregnancy, Reviews
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 eater? Can I really increase my [...]
REVIEW: #42 Occult America
November 5, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Non-Fictional, Reviews
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 séance in the White House. [...]
Teaser Tuesdays: Occult America #Meme
November 3, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Meme, Non-Fictional
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 was [...]
REVIEW: #41 How NOT to Write a Novel
November 2, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Non-Fictional, Reviews, Writing
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 we in the business call ‘really awful [...]
In Honor of #NaNoWriMo: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Giveaway!
November 2, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Giveaways, Nanowrimo, Non-Fictional, Writing
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 commenting on [...]
Friday Firsts: A Book #Meme
October 30, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Children, Meme, Non-Fictional
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 [...]
REVIEW: #40 101 Habits of Hightly Successful Novelists
October 29, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Non-Fictional, Reviews
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. Readers will learn how to adopt [...]
Shopping for the Writer in Me!
September 13, 2009 by Allison
Filed under General, Non-Fictional, Shopping
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 & LEAVES by [...]
REVIEW: #19 A Cold-Blooded Business
September 3, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Drama, Mystery/Crime, Non-Fictional, Reviews
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 the Crime, In Cold Blood. But [...]
REVIEW: #16 Surviving High Society
August 29, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Autobiography, Drama, Inspirational, Non-Fictional, Reviews
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 like Kate Hepburn and Eleanor Roosevelt.
My [...]
REVIEW: #6 90 Minutes in Heaven
August 11, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Inspirational, Non-Fictional, Reviews
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 lifeless inside the ruins of [...]
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