Tag Archives: Books

Bookshelf Banter: Baby Catcher

Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent
Rating: 5 of 5 stars
I’m a little obsessed at the moment with reading birth stories. Honestly, I can’t get enough of them especially natural and home birth stories because I don’t know that many women personally who have given birth without medication. I am fascinated with [...]

Reading

Title · Author · Year
All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7) · Harris, Charlaine · Nov-09
Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6) · Harris, Charlaine · Nov-09
Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5) · Harris, Charlaine · Nov-09
Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4) · Harris, Charlaine · Nov-09
Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3) · Harris, Charlaine · Nov-09
The [...]

Gleaned: September 30th through October 13th

Glean: (verb) to col­lect or gather any­thing lit­tle by lit­tle or slowly. I glean the web, gath­er­ing bits of infor­ma­tion, links, pho­tos and quotes. Here are some bits that I gleaned September 30th through October 13th. Enjoy!

Iron Idiom – Beautiful wrought iron gates in nature themes.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
doubleTwist – An alternative to iTunes
Transparency – from GOOD Magazine – Awesome infographics.
The Amazing Bookcase Staircase – http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/ny/leoniestair3.jpg

All images and links have been found and collected from the internet as inspiration for those viewing. Copyright still belongs to the owner or creator of each work. I don’t have any financial benefit from posting them.

Bookshelf Banter: Amee Bender's Willful Creatures

Willful Creatures by Amee Bender is a collection of fictional short stories that offer a look at different kinds of authentic love. The stories are whimsical and slightly melancholy with an optimistic finish. Relying on odd characters and lyrical prose, the stories offer a surreal prospective into human emotion.

2008 Year in Review

Last year, I made a resolution to be more grateful. I did manage to keep a gratitude journal through the first part of the year but waned through the second half. I set a few goals, here is how I did.
Learn to play the piano, again. I played my keyboard once or twice but [...]

Bookshelf Banter: From April to May

Here are few of the books I’ve read since April and a few short thoughts on each one:
Book: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Author: Kinsolver, Barbara
My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Summary: Kinsolver takes us through a year of eating local and home grown. With the help of her daughter and husband who share wonderful recipes and facts [...]

Spring Gleaning

Today is the day I have decide to tackle the cleaning issues around the house. Spring cleaning fever is in my blood and it is keeping me up at night with all the ideas of what I can get done around here. I am ready to start…but I kind of feel like this:

from Garfield minus [...]