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(Read in September) - Still playing catch up This book is not a story but a compilation of short stories, poems and other oddities. When I picked up this book I knew I was diving in the mind of a group of teenage boys who grew up with me in my hometown of Levittown, PA and I honestly wasn't sure that this was a place I wanted to go. The entries in the book were mostly written when we were in high school, I believe some were written in the college years. This is definitaly a book that a teenage boy can relate to most, and especially one who grew up in Levittown, PA. There are a lot of Levittown references that brought back good memories. I found it very interesting to dive into the minds of some of my high school friends. The entries in the book were witty at times, snarky at others and touching in some as well, it was a fun ride down memory lane while reading this book. These guys are definitely putting their soul out on these pages, the good, the bad and the ugly. It's hard t...

(Read in September) Rating: 3/5 Stars Pub. Date: May 2005 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Format: Paperback, 528pp ISBN: 0451213203 Grace Lawson's life is good one, it hadn't always been but since meeting her husband Jack things have really turned around for her. She and Jack have two beautiful children and a loving and kind husband. One day when an old photograph was placed in with her other photos from a photomat, her life was turned upside down. When her husband saw the photo he pretended to not know the people in the photograph but then takes off without explanation. After being turned down by the police to help find her missing husband, since it looks like he left on his own, she decides to do some investigating on her own for answers and her husband. What she finds shakes up her entire life to the absolute core. With some help from some friends of her present and past, as well as some strangers that have just come into her life she is able to unravel the story but in ...

I finished a few books in September but I am way behind on the reviews so my next few reviews are from September. The Last Child by John Hart Rating: 3/5 Stars Pub. Date: March 2010 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Format: Paperback, 432pp ISBN: 0312642369 Alyssa Merrimon went missing a year ago as no good leads were ever found. Johnny, Alyssa's brother, has not given up the hunt for her and continues to search the neighborhoods for signs of Alyssa's captor. Detective Hunt, the cop assigned to Alyssa's case feels responsible for keeping an eye on Johnny and his mother whose lives have been destroyed by the disappearance of Alyssa. When another girl is taken close to the one year anniversary of Alyssa, Johnny is even mor e vigilant to catch the person responsible for both of these disappearances. What Johnny finds in his search puts him in danger and leads the investigation to disturbing results. I found some of the spots in this story to be a little slow but the idea...

This month was the WoWO discussion of The Education of Mrs. Brimley by Donna MacMeans . We won this book from Author Dianna Love's Website . This is our second book won from this site and they have both made for fun and successful book club meetings. The other book we won was Wild Heart by Lori Brighton, you can read that review here . We obviously think that Dianna Love is Wonderful and We hope to win more from her author giveaways! Once we won the books, Donna was such a pleasure to deal with. She mailed the books, signed personally to each one of our members, and she sent goodies as well as a VERY nice personal note to the ladies of the WoWO . At our Eat, Pray, Love discussion we gave out copies of The Education of Mrs. Brimley and commenced our reading it for this discussion. As usual this review posting will have spoilers in it to the story.. Here is us reading the note and excited about the book: Pub. Date: October 2007 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Format: Mass Market P...

Rating: 3/5 Stars Pub. Date: August 2006 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Format: Mass Market Paperback, 416pp BN Sales Rank: 229,148 ISBN: 0451412222 I listened to this on Audio but since it was borrowed from the library I no longer have the ISBN information. How is it even possible that it's the end of August and I've finished only 1 book so far and it's an audio book! I thought with my vacation I would get so much read and I did not! Yikes. Synopsis: Evan Casher is a successful Documentary film maker and has a pretty great life until one morning all of that changes. Evan receives a call from his mother to come home urgently and when he gets there his mother has been murdered and the assailants are still in the house. Evan is quickly thrust into the world of spies where you don't know who to trust and have to be willing to do anything to survive. Evan learns more about his parents than he ever knew was possible and when the assailants take his father as a way to get bac...

On Wednesday was the July/August WoWO book club discussion of Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I started Eat, Pray, Love in June on my own before it was chosen as the next WoWO, so I decided to review it personally while the book was still fresh in my mind. To see my personal comments/review about the book use this link . We had a full house this month and the WoWO's were back in true form. Our newest member, Rebecca, sadly couldn't be there but she read the book and added her comments, as a true book lover would. In honor of Elizabeth's journey in Italy, we made pizza's and drank wine and a little lemoncello! We had a ball and enjoyed every minute of it. As is normal for WoWO discussion posts, there will be spoilers. Pub. Date: February 2006 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Format: Hardcover, 334pp ISBN: 0670034711 Genre: Non-Fiction Coming to Theaters: August 13th, 2010 WoWO Rating: 3.60/5 Stars (9 ratings) My Personal Rating: 4/5 Stars Author Elizabeth Gil...

I am pretty behind with this post... July was a VERY slow reading month for me as I had a night class that was Monday through Thursday. Not much free time to read at all. So this one will be a short one: Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Racous Year of Eating Locally - Rating: 3/5 Stars Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Rating 5 Stars - Favorite I also posted about my fabulous book club win of free books for the a year for the WoWO's.. The books have already started pouring in and we cannot wait to dig into those. In August, I have a week vacation and I plan to veg and read and read and read... so Im hoping for a much better reading month. Some of the books scheduled this month are: Finish Fallen by Lauren Kate (my current read) Tall, Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway The short second life of bree tanner by Stephanie Meyer Club Dead and Dead to the world by Charlaine Harris Fireworks over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff a soft place to land by Susan Rebecca white Still missing by...

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...