Note: This review was written about the previous edition of the book. The Amazon link is to the September 2014 edition. There are a lot of books on parenting out there. As a first time parent, I wanted to do the best job I could without getting caught up in the feeling of failing because I wasn’t doing it right according to Sears or Spock or whoever. I read technical books on how often babies needed to eat and when I might need to call […]
OMG Awesomesauce! CBR Book Exchange
I got home the other night and my husband said “A package came for you?” Thank you so much MelBivDevoe! I adore the coffee cup! I’m not reading yet because I have holiday knitting to complete but look out for the first three reviews of CBR7!!
Made for Music
I have been a musician for thirty years. I sing and play a variety of instruments. I’m the kind of person who can pick up just about any instrument and have a basic capability to play within a few minutes. I have never felt like less of a musician than when I read this book. It’s not that it shows me to be technically insufficient but that he tells of a world of music which I can never hope to experience. As all of Sacks’ […]
To Infinity and Back – Sci Fi fantasy short story collection by the Earthsea lady. Some of it entertaining, some weird, all thought provoking.
My husband picked this book up when he went out to get the Earthsea books (which he still has not read all the way through, I married a heathen). There are copious author’s notes that gave me an insight into LeGuin’s writing. She writes of the “psychomyth” as her main story type which greatly helped me in not trying to understand the stories in a rational sense but to let myself feel what the reading of them engendered. This book was engrossing and each piece […]