That’s what I’m in the middle of finding out. I’m exactly half way through reading a book by Norma Budden that I downloaded for Kindle. Anyone who knows me well knows that I don’t like a book unless it grabs me right from the start. If I am not interested in the first few pages, [...]

This is a mother-daughter story.  It is the story of a mother, Kliot, who used her ingenuity to survive as a Jew in Germany during the Holocaust in ways that were new to me.  But it is also the story of the mother’s daughter, Mitsios, who in her teen years is told that she is [...]

I have the pleasure of introducing you to “Pink and Grow Rich” by Deepika Bajaj, an ebook about leadership. The ebook shares remarkable stories of individuals as well as what the author calls 11 UNREASONABLE Rules. Unreasonable rules…at first glance I thought she was referring to rules that one would not follow because they just [...]

What state would you be in mentally right now if you had survived abuse, Hurricane Katrina, single motherhood, adultery, and more?  Would you be ready to give up, sink into depression and let it all consume you? There is nothing more infectious than a beautiful smile, and the author of this book has one.  She [...]

In a time of economic downturn, families trying to make ends meet, husbands and wives trying to figure out how to make the money that they DO make work for them, this book comes as a breath of fresh air…sort of. The “breath of fresh air” part is the way the book, If I’m So [...]

Marion Elizabeth Witte takes us on a very personal journey into her past as an abused child growing up in a farmhouse in the prairies of North Dakota. Her childhood was not only cold and harsh on a physical level because of the cold winters in a home that didn’t have adequate heat, plumbing and [...]

Which came first, the day set aside to dream, to think of a better America, and to consider what you can do to be part of making it happen, or the book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama. In this book, now President Obama, shared his vision for [...]

Today I had the pleasure of interacting by email with Jay Rogers, a man knowledgeable about girl scout and boy scout history.  Our interaction began with a question about something I was offering on eBay.  In the email he provided me with a link to what he is working on, and the link lead to [...]

On 3.25.09 I was to be part of a book tour for a wonderful eBook, “Family Folktales, Write Your Own Family Stories“, and didn’t have an internet connection for most of the day because they are doing work on Cable along our street, which then turned into not really being related to the work being [...]

Following is a a review about a book written by a very talented young man, Christopher Shiveley Welch. Christopher’s mother, Debra, is also an accomplished author…please look for her name in the “Anything Book Blogroll” to the right. Christopher’s book has been reviewed by John Helman of allbookreviews.com and his review was passed along by [...]