Author: Susan Dembling Pages: 198 Publisher: Penguin Group Copyright: 2012 Rating: Running On Fumes Author: Susan Cain Pages: 352 Publisher: Broadway Books/Crown Publishing group Copyright: 2012 Rating: Hangin with a Good Friend February was to be my month to spotlight the topic of introversion. I should know better than to expect anything from February […]
Why I Won’t Let My Middle Grade Child Read Serafina and the Black Cloak…Just Yet
Author: Robert Beatty Pages: 293 Publisher: Disney Hyperion Copyright: 2015 Rating: Can’t Put It Down So technically this isn’t categorized as “young adult” fiction but I want to tell you why I think it should be and why it landed in my month of young adult reviews. My 10 year old received this […]
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Author: Jenny Han Copyright: 2014 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 384 Rating: Hangin’ with a Good Friend This is Young Adult Fiction, although I wouldn’t let my 11 year old read it (a few swears that didn’t bother me, and a couple smooches, although the main character is aware of sex) The first […]
Firing the Food Police: How my Family Broke the Rules.
Many of you might have read my review of Ellyn Satter’s Secrets to Feeding a Healthy Family. If not, take a moment to check it out. If you have read the book or my review then you are aware that Satter presents the effects of parental restrictive mindsets towards foods, and how this may impact […]
Brooklyn
Author: Colm Toibin Copyright 2009 Publisher: Scribner Pages: 262 Rating: Nothing Better To Do I picked Brooklyn up at my neighborhood little library the other afternoon. I hadn’t read a good fiction book in a while. I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for any book that has New York Bestseller on the cover with added points […]
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family: How to Eat, How to Raise Good Eaters, How to Cook, Second Edition Author: Ellyn Satter Publisher: Kelcy Press, Madison, WI Copyright: 2008 Pages: 302 Rating: Can’t Put It Down The Struggle If you read my last review discussing intuitive eating, you already know that I have faced […]
Intuitive Eating
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works, Third Edition Authors: Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch Copyright: 2012 Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin, New York Pages: 344 Rating: Hangin with a Good Friend Food Rules! Food rules. We love food rules and we hate them. We like to impose them on ourselves and sometimes […]
A Woman’s Place
A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World Author: Katelyn Beaty Copyright 2016 Publisher: Howard Books Pages: 251 Rating: Hangin with a Good Friend “The reality is that feminism has defined broader cultural conversations about women’s work and vocations because Christian communities have largely overlooked that conversation. […]