Tag Archives: Reading

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 [...]

Conflicted and Afflicted

I am supposed to be traveling over the mountains to beautiful, scenic Twisp, Washington right now to spend the weekend with some of my favorite super women. They are having an awesome workshop and hafla event. Alas, I’m not feeling well and with the seasonal diseases lurking, I am not willing to push my chances. [...]

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 [...]

Bookshelf Banter: Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth

I finished reading A New Earth by Echart Tolle last week. Though I’ve been thinking a lot about this book, when I actually try to put it into words they fail. This, for the message of the book, is appropriate. I’m going to read the book again before I say any more about it. I [...]

Bookshelf Banter: Marianne Fredriksson's Hanna's Daughters

Hanna’s Daughters , by Marianne Fredriksson, is a Literary Fiction about three generations of Swedish women, starting with Hanna in 1871. I picked up this book from Target early in January. I had just finished Pillar’s of the Earth, which I’d gobbled up entirely and was left wanting more. I decide this book with [...]

With not a moment to lose, no moment is lost

Alright! Fine, I’m back. I, uh, fell behind on Nanowrimo *cough* but I’m not giving up. I’m still in the game, though I have quite a bit to catch up on. Chris asked me last night if I had quit and I realized I haven’t–though it seems that I have because I haven’t written much. [...]