I love books I love new books, used books, book recommendations, book clubs, and mostly owning books! This last fact is the main reason that books could be the death of me. Books stores are an instant magnet to me. If I walk past one, I HAVE to enter. Before I know it I have spent hours combing the shelves only to walk out with 5 new books in my bag. Sometimes I...
I originally wrote this piece in 2015 after attending Yallfest the year before for the first time with my then 16 year old daughter. I wanted to resurrect it and post it again since it is time for Yallfest for another year. My daughter is now in her first year of college and I have to say this is one of my favorite things we did together in her High School years. If...
I just finished reading Wisdom Found In The Pause Joie’s Gift by Barbara Techel. This book was about quieting your mind to find your path in life as we go through transition, It is Barbara’s story about losing her beloved dachshund Joie so soon after she adopted her and the following soul searching she needed to do to not only deal with her grief, but to...
What’s better than sitting in a cafe in Paris with a glass of wine in one hand and a book in the other? Nothing!! Seriously, you need reading material when you are sitting in airports and sitting on a plane for 7 hours. Other than having a couple of books ready to go on my IPad, I picked up Truly Madly Guilty from Liane Moriarty at Costco last week. ...
The Light Of Paris is a page turner I picked up The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown mainly because of the Paris subject matter. Five pages in that I was going to have no problem finishing this one. It took me only 3 days to read The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown. The author of the bestseller The Weird Sisters wrote this story that explores the complicated...