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Audrey's Give Aways is hosting a Cookbook Giveaway... this cookbook looks right up my alley and I wanted to share it with all of you. Im not a mom (unless you count my puppies), but I am terribly busy with working full-time and attending school at night.. so any help I can get in the cooking department I'll take. Audrey has a review and pictures of some of the meals she made from the cookbook and they all look delicious. If the book interests you, go over to Audrey's site and enter for the cookbook. Good Luck!

Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Racous Year of Eating Locally Rating: 3/5 Stars Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Harmony; 1 edition (April 24, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 030734732X Genre: Non-Fiction Received book in Shelfari Book Chat Book Swap The authors of this book memoir their journey of eating locally (with-in 100 miles radius) for a year. This idea comes into fruition one day when they are in a remote location and only have a few items on hand and can't get to a store. They must feed themselves and their guests on what they can find locally. They fish and forage for mushrooms and veggies from their old garden and come up with a meal that proves you can make something good from seemingly nothing (of course you really need to know how to cook first - and be a little adventurous). At the first of Spring they start their journey with only eating foods the come from with-in 100 mile radius of their home and it starts out a little bumpy. Sure they can find food, living in ...

I entered a Year of Books contest at Leah Stewart's Facebook page (you can also find her at her website www.LeahStewart.com). Leah Stewart is the author of several books and she hosted a MAJOR contest for book clubs and I won books for the WoWO Book Club!! This is just absolutely amazing that we (The WoWO's) won 10 copies of 12 different AMAZING books. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, by Kevin Wilson (5 Stars on Amazon.com) Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted. Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these won...

5 Stars / Favorite Pub. Date: May 1996 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Format: Paperback, 256pp ISBN: 0345404475 Edition Description: Reissue OWN: Keeper Shelf In the year 2021 (the original printing is set in 1992, but this version has 2021 at the setting), years after World War Terminus, humans have either died or emigrated to Mars. Those who choose to emigrate are enticed with andriod servants and those who have stayed behind on earth risk radiation poisoning and risk being classified as "Special". One of the most important things when staying behind on earth is the status of owning an animal. Caring for an animal somehow shows you have empathy and humanity. Some, even the protagonist Rick Deckard, pretend to have animals or have synthetic animals. Deckard when his sheep Groucho died, didn't want anyone to know that he no longer had an animal so he replaced it with a synthetic sheep. One of the most interesting elements for me was the Empathy Box, a box that c...

June was another slow reading and posting month for me as my night class started and I've been SWAMPED with reading for school instead of pleasure. My apologies for my late June wrap-up post but better late than never. I finished the following books in the month of June: The Alchemyst by Michael Scott 2.5/5 Stars The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver 2/5 Stars Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell 2.5/5 Stars Wild Heart by Lori Brighton (WoWO) 4.5/5 Stars Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 4/5 Stars I have to say that this wasn't a great reading month but Wild Heart and Eat, Pray, Love made it worth the while. You can't win them all. My favorite book of the month was Wild Heart by Lori Brighton, which was the WoWO book club read this month. I think that this Debut novel is a great start to a wonderful career for Lori. I'm looking forward the next book in this series from her. My least favorite book of the month was The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. This was my first Ki...

Rating: 3/5 Stars Pub. Date: January 2001 (orig. pub. 1942) Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Format: Paperback, 224pp Series: C. S. Lewis Signature Classics ISBN: 0060652934 Library Loan In Episolatory format, the Screwtape Letters is the communication of the devil Screwtape to his nephew on earth, Wormwood. Wormwood is on earth to secure human souls for hell. These letters from Screwtape give guidance to Wormwood on how to handle "the patient", the human he is trying to secure the soul of for hell. Through these letters we learn about the situation on earth with Humans and how they can be swayed to go towards evil ways. I think myself and this book got off to a bad start, I must have started out reading the book while distracted because I didn't realize at first that these were letters from hell. The terms "The Enemy" made me wonder if the enemy was god or the devil at first. Once I figured it out I liked it a little better. I went back and re-read ...