This is a neat little book that I read almost in one day. I found a lot of myself in it. Some of you may think that this statement is odd. After all, it’s about a British girl growing up in a small town under a severely religious, perhaps deranged family, to find out [...]
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I was already interested in the book based on a friend’s recommendation, but then I opened it up and found it was written by the same author as The Kite Runner and I was hooked. I loved both of these books.
Both novels are about Afghanistan, but tell a different type of story. [...]
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Have you heard about the new “Kindle” from Amazon? This is a great little product, and I just love it! It’s a little device, about the size of a paperback novel, that let’s you download and read books, newspapers and magazines, as well as audio books, word files and more from your PC, [...]
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The subtitle for this book is Quick, Low-fat, Low-Calorie, Vegetarian Meals. And it should be noted that they are also vegan: no eggs, no milk, cheese, butter, or other dairy, and of course, no other animal products. Most of her recipes include some kind of tofu, or other soy product. Which is [...]
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I finally finished this novel, and I’m glad. Yes, it was good. Surprising, and well-written. But I just seemed to have trouble getting into it. But don’t get me wrong, you should definitely check it out, especially if you are interested in the Vietnam War.
I guess my “stuck” feeling started on [...]
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This is one of those perfect stories that I just couldn’t quit reading and was very sad to finally put down. Des Kennedy is a resident of Denman Island in the Georgia Strait of British Columbia, Canada, which I have had the recent pleasure of enjoying. It’s a beautiful little place full of [...]
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This is one of those 1970’s style photo books. The kind with interesting photographs along with text (in this case handwritten). It’s very 70’s in that it explores what it is to be a woman, if a woman should live her life in the kitchen, etc. I feel that the feminist movement [...]
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Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin
This is a thought-provoking book about how our diet affects our daily life from emotional, physical and spiritual perspectives. I found a lot of myself in Annemarie. She was Dutch but lived in South America for most of her childhood and adolescence. Then she moved to America. [...]
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I’ve seen that there is a “The New Laurel’s Kitchen” now, but I’m not familiar with it. This is for the original. Having spent time with a vegetarian family (we were provided food, but no meat, and I had to cook), I got a lot of recipes, ideas, and advice from this book. [...]
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Basically this book is a long sales brochure for PS (phosphatidylserine). However, it does have some good memory tricks, tests, and exercises. It claims that a 65 year-old who trains using their guidelines (and product) will remember better than an untrained 25 year old.
As we grow older, our ability to remember things, like [...]
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