Monthly Archives: January 2010
Book review: ‘Breakfast In Bed’ by Robin Kaye
For Rich and Becca, it’s definitely not love at first sight — particularly when Becca’s first glimpse of Rich is as he’s stepping out of the shower. Her shower — the one in the apartment she just rented. Or so … Continue reading
Filed under 3-star reads, book reviews
Where In The World Wednesday: Trevi Fountain, Rome
It’s Wednesday — and that means it’s time for my friend Jess’s weekly Where In The World Wednesday! As an avid travel bug, I can’t believe I only recently discovered this fun feature. And since Jess featured Rome this week, … Continue reading
Filed under out and about, where in the world weds.
Book review: ‘Saving CeeCee Honeycutt’ by Beth Hoffman
For 12-year-old Cecelia Rose “CeeCee” Honeycutt, life has become a haze of keeping her head down and staying out of the way of cruel neighborhood kids. With her father nowhere in sight, CeeCee is left to plunge into the world … Continue reading
Filed under 4-star reads, book reviews
Time for a new hair plan
The Christmas decorations are all put away, stacked in cardboard boxes — properly labeled — and returned to their year-round home in the shed. Everything is vacuumed, decluttered and void of the red-and-green staples I was used to seeing for … Continue reading
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Book review: ‘French Milk’ by Lucy Knisley
The people! The places! The food! Paris comes alive through the art and photographs of Lucy Knisley in French Milk, her memoir of one month spent in France with her mother in January 2007. The novel is her creative, personal travelogue … Continue reading
Filed under 4-star reads, book reviews
Random things that make me happy, pt. 2
1. Hearing a favorite song on the radio. In a digital age when anything and everything is available with the click of a mouse or the smack of a button on our iPods, how much fun is it to randomly … Continue reading
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