What Happened to Goodbye Review

Please enjoy my review of What Happened to Goodbye on Blogher. Here is a snippet for you to enjoy....

I am very glad I am not a teenager in today's world. There are so many additional pressures and worries that I never had to think about. Luckily there are authors like Sarah Dessen to portray real teenagers and those pressures that they face in the young adult novel, What Happened to Goodbye.

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PS will be back with a post this week I swear!

A Discovery of Witches Review

Deborah Harkness' novel, A Discovery of Witches, is not what you would call an average Vampire story. It builds mythology of a different world than we know -- a secret world using history, science and folklore -- and weaves these components into a unusual love story.

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Wordless Wednesday: IPhone Photos Vol. 2

I'm going to be honest, I love my Husband and children but my Iphone is right up there in the love. My Camera is part of the reason for that.

Getting to Happy Review

On top of being the busiest I have ever been on my life, I have been reading and writing review for #BlogHerBook Club. Here is an excerpt for my latest one for Getting to Happy from Terry McMillan.

The road to happy may not be an easy one, in fact they are lots of twists and bumps along the way. Sometimes it is those twists that make us realize what is really important in our lives. In Terry McMillan's book, Getting to Happy, we are there for the women from Waiting to Exhale : Savannah, Robin, Gloria, and Bernadine's bumpy travels towards the hope of happiness. We enter their lives 15 years after "Waiting to Exhale" took place (the women are in their 50s at this point). All of the women had an expectation to be happy in their lives, sadly most of them are not.  Read more at Blogher

Nine

I've been with you 9 years. That feels like a lifetime and yet still so short. I may have picked up 2,000 lone socks, but you gave me the two best presents (they are called Drew and Jacob) and a million laughs. You make me feel beautiful and special. I, in turn, make you feel funnier and smarter than anyone else does.

My favorite moments are sharing a beer and a chat with you. I love to save stories for you because I know you can turn a bad day into a funny joke. You are a writer, even though you don't have the patience. You don't make fun of me for blogging, even though you make fun of me for facebooking. When you vacuum, you create meticulous straight lines with the vacuum cleaner that I must admire. (No, really, you make me admire them.)

You are an amazing father. You can't wait to teach the kids all that you know, yet you are understanding if they aren't interested. You let them be themselves, yet you aren't afraid to be strict. Without you I would be lost raising them.

Most of all, I love you. I can't imagine how boring my life would be without you in it. Let's end this little blog post before I break out every cliche in the book. Whoops, too late! Oh well, it's okay to be sappy sometimes.


Happy anniversary, Mr. B!

PS Please go  check out my review of A Jane Austen Education on Blogher. Thx!