Ruby Sparks How hard is it to find the girl of your dreams? If you found her, would she really live up to your expectations? As a writer, journalist, blogger, and someone who knows the struggles associated with putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, this movie hits home. Not in the sense where I've created imaginary friends, or girls to associate with, but the difficulty, and anguish that comes with writing. It's often said that writers hate to write, but eventually say they are happy ... continue reading...
Search Results for: pet
Encouraging your Child’s Learning and Play from Home
Every parent wants the best for their child, but sometimes you don’t really want to get the maths workbooks out. You know it’s far too boring, it’s too much like school. They don’t like it either, and who can blame them. So here are a few fun ideas and ways to get your kids learning. Swimming Going swimming can be tons of fun and it is educational too. Swimming is a skill that could save your life, and potentially someone else’s as well. Every kid loves messing around in water, and with the ... continue reading...
Book Reviews: Elegy for Eddie
Elegy for Eddie Author: Jacqueline Winspear Like M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin, Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs tantalizes. The commonality is this – you can’t get enough of them! And the resemblance ends there. Agatha Raisin is a self made, antagonistic, narcissistic but smart man addicted pug-like investigator. Daisie Dobbs is also a self made investigator of murder; and she sports elegance, courtesy, intelligence and is generous to all. Both authors keep us coming back for more, for ... continue reading...
Holiday Coffee Table Books
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 By William Manchester and Paul Reid This last in the great three volumes detailing Winston Churchill’s life and times was begun by his biographer, the great William Manchester. As Manchester was dying and only started on this last of the trilogy of England’s Best, he asked Paul Reid to finish the manuscript. And he has done a wonderful job. As Churchill assumes the prime ministry of England to face the demons of ... continue reading...
Book Reviews: The Christmas Kid
The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories Author: Pete Hamill Hamill’s collection of stories set in 1930-1950 Brooklyn speak to nostalgia, loss and yearning. The neighborhood borough characters live in the world of neighborhood, the local bars, the grocery stores, the young stick ball gangs of kids, the immigrants, the poor, the strange, the unique. They exist before TV, cell phones, or digital technology and they are a tight community, keeping their secrets and lives ringing ... continue reading...
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 89
- 90
- 91
- 92
- 93
- …
- 122
- Next Page »