Several years ago, Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazrio was the UCSB Reads choice for the year. I didn’t read it at the time and when I was a volunteer at the library, I was amazed by how many copies of this title were on the shelves. This is a non-fiction account of the trials and […]
A mom was lamenting how much time her daughter spent on the computer. Constantly having to limit the daughter’s time on the computer, there was some amount of guilt on the mom’s part around the daughter’s habits. My thought was “or DON’T restrict your daughter’s computer time and maybe she’ll grow up to be a
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach was a nice companion to the movie I saw last year. As with any book, it offered in depth internal dialog and background that a movie could never serve. The movie condensed a couple characters and removed complete story lines. The book was quite full in comparison
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Limes give an extra kick in many recipes. Limes brighten guacamole and bean dip. Daughter had the recent chore of squeezing lemons and limes and making lemonade. Limeade, citrus-ade, whatever. When she measured the ingredients into the pitcher, she discovered it wasn’t big enough. She asked me what to do. Um, get a bigger pitcher?
Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1) by Laurell K. Hamilton was recommended last spring when the last Sookie Stackhouse book was released. With no new Charlaine Harris vampire novels in the queue, we fanswere looking for something else in the genre and the Anita Blake series was an option. I resisted for a while
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