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I bought this outstanding book for my niece’s birthday tomorrow. It is a picture book that takes the statistics of the world’s people and extrapolates them into understandable numbers. So if the world were a hundred person village, what are the ages of the people in the village? What are their religions, who has fresh … Read more
I really enjoyed this book and give it five stars. It is a quick read about the daughter of a Baptist preacher in Georgia, who can’t wait to get out of there and get on with her life. Meanwhile, she has to learn to not be so self absorbed, and that destiny is more an … Read more
This book is an incredible book. I loved it even though it dealt with disease and death interlaced with a lot of love-making. This is a gorgeous story of commitment, poignantly told. It is about the beauty, grandeur and fragility of the natural world. This author has a true gift with words, using lush descriptive … Read more
I really enjoyed this book whose premise is that happiness can be cultivated. I give it five stars. Although slow going at times, I found it a thoroughly worthwhile read about one woman’s journey toward figuring out how to make choices that would garner more happiness. She ends up nagging less, de-cluttering more, laughing more, … Read more
I loved this short book and give it five stars. Thank goodness we are not our mothers, and thank goodness for them. Women’s potential has been marginalized for thousands of years, but our mothers were the first generation where there were more opportunities for them and they could entertain the idea of having a career, … Read more
I loved this book and give it five stars. It is about an elementary aged child and her mother immigrating from China to Brooklyn where they work in a sweat shop. It encapsulates their hard won progress out of dire poverty into a new culture. It is about the humble triumph of the human spirit. … Read more
This book is for kids and young adults to help them be alert to and wise about advertising. I just completed it with my 8th grader, because her writing assignment was to write an ad, and she thought she hadn’t much experience with ads since we don’t watch TV. This book was excellent at instigating … Read more
After reading with my daughter The Girl of the Limberlost (click here) and loving it, I resolved to read more by Gene Straton Porter, but haven’t until now. This author, who died in a car crash in 1924 before The Keeper of the Bees was printed, wrote ten novels that have sold more than ten … Read more
Okay, ignoring the stupid title, I really liked this book and give it five stars. I renewed it three times from the library – wangling one more than allowable as I was loath to give it up. It is about how and why to get processed foods out of your life and actually enjoy what … Read more
I’m so glad blog reader Clare recommended this book to me multiple times! Thank you! I really enjoyed this touching novel and give it five stars. It is a story told of Seattle’s International district, bouncing between the 1940‘s and the 1980‘s, from the perspective of a Chinese boy both at the age of twelve … Read more
This is a book more people should read. I give it five stars. My oldest daughter read it in high school and ended up attending one of the 40 schools featured here. Her school, St. John’s (click here), which I had not heard of before, is already an enormous blessing even though she’s only half … Read more
I really liked this book and give it five stars. I applaud her simple, no nonsense style and straight forward, practical approach. There are so many books on clearing clutter and getting organized that miss many of the important underlying issues that need to be addressed. This book hits on those and deals with them … Read more
I checked out this book from my library’s new book shelf and am very glad I did. Besides highlighting the usual suspects as so many books do, this one features artists I had not heard of, that I now want to find out more about. The book does a good job summing up the trends … Read more
This is a wonderful book of how to make delicious food to dehydrate in your drier to be reconstituted and reheated for camping. This approach will not only be less expensive for our (fast approaching) camping trip out west, but quicker and easier while there, while definitely more delicious than store bought options. Many of … Read more
I liked this book and give it five stars even though it is long, slow in getting started, a tad preachy in places, and about a very serious period in history that may not be fun to contemplate. I think it is not only an important book, but interesting and very well done, written as … Read more
I enjoy the topic of collage, and check out every book I can on it. Having read so many of these, I’m in a good position to point out a good one. And I give this new volume five stars. It helps the reader work on and experiment with the myriad of options in the … Read more
I don’t usually buy cookbooks, unless I find ones I want at library sales. Usually I check out cookbooks from the new books collections of libraries and find a couple recipes worth trying, which I copy into my ever-expanding collection. Similarly, I checked out this book, but before I had looked at one quarter of … Read more