Book Review: The Joy of Ballpark Food by Bennett Jacobstein
THE JOY OF BALLPARK FOOD From Hot Dogs to Haute Cuisine By: Bennett Jacobstein Food Photography: Deborah L Jacobstein Published: January 9, 2015 Publisher: Ballpark Food Publications Non-Fiction Baseball is synonymous with summer. People all over our country spend days, nights and weekends at ballparks cheering on their favorite minor or major league teams. Part…
Read More Book Review: Love and Miss Communication By Elyssa Friedland
LOVE AND MISS COMMUNICATION By: Elyssa Friedland Published: May 12, 2015 Publisher: William Morrow Publishers Fiction/Contemporary Romance Have you ever wanted to completely disconnect? No cell phone, computer, or iPad. No email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Could you do it for an hour? A day? A week? How about a whole year? Evie Rosen is completely…
Read More Children’s Book Review: If You Were Me and Lived in…Greece By Carole P Roman
IF YOU WERE ME AND LIVED IN…GREECE A Child’s Introduction to Culture Around the World By: Carole P Roman Published: September 23, 2014 Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Non-Fiction It is never to early to start teaching your child about our great world and the countries and cultures that make it so wonderful. If you…
Read More Book Review: The House of Hawthorne By Erika Robuck
THE HOUSE OF HAWTHORNE By: Erika Robuck Published: May 5, 2015 Publisher: NAL Fiction/Historical Fiction I feel very ignorant when it comes to knowledge about our most prolific and talented writers from history. Yes, I have heard of Thoreau, Hawthorne, Emerson, and Melville, but didn’t realize they were all friends. I didn’t realize some lived…
Read More 14 Books to Read This Summer – Fiction and Non-Fiction
There are some amazing books coming out this summer that I wanted to be sure to share with my readers. Some of these are sitting on my own shelf waiting to be read, others I’ll be buying like the rest of you as soon as they are available. Most of these are authors I don’t…
Read More Children’s Book Review: A Flag for the Flying Dragon By Carole P Roman
A FLAG FOR THE FLYING DRAGON A Captain No Beard Story By: Carole P Roman Published: March 27, 2015 Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Fiction Alexander and his friends are back on their pirate ship the Flying Dragon ready for another imaginative adventure. Captain No Beard really wishes his ship had a flag, but he…
Read More Books that Came My Way in May
My mailbox was full of books this month. There are so many great books coming out this summer, I don’t know how I am going to keep up with all of them. I am certainly looking forward to sitting on my porch and reading all these amazing books. As always, if I am choosing to…
Read More Book Review: Sweet Forgiveness By Lori Nelson Spielman
SWEET FORGIVENESS By: Lori Nelson Spielman Published: June 2, 2015 Publisher: Plume Fiction Last summer, I read Spielman’s first novel, THE LIFE LIST. I loved it (see my review, HERE) and have been anxiously waiting for her second novel. Even with a very hectic schedule, I breezed through this one in just three days. Remember…
Read More Children’s Book Review: Sparky and Tidbit By Kathryn O Galbraith
SPARKY AND TIDBIT By: Kathryn O. Galbraith Illustrated by: Gerald Kelley Published: February 3, 2015 Publisher: Simon Spotlight Fiction Is your child ready to start reading chapter books? These Ready-to-Read books are the perfect starting point. Four different levels are offered to get your child used to more words and longer stories from Pre-Level One…
Read More Book Review: Out from the Underworld By Heather Siegel
OUT FROM THE UNDERWORLD By: Heather Siegel Published: April 30, 2015 Publisher: Greenpoint Press Non-Fiction/Memoir I’m participating with a book review of OUT FROM THE UNDERWORLD in the iRead Book Tours. To visit other stops on the tour and enter to win a copy of OUT FROM THE UNDERWORLD, click HERE. Heather takes us into…
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