Book Review: Lonestar Secrets
By Colleen Coble Publisher: Thomas Nelson [rating:3] This book is about a woman named Shannon who decides to go back to her hometown where she can raise her young daughter Kylie in a good environment with lots of fresh air. However, by moving back, Shannon must also face the many demons she left behind. She gets a job as a veterinarian and moves into her uncle's old and dilapidated house. Soon after arriving, Shannon finds her high school enemy, Jack, has a daughter named Faith who looks just like her own daughter Kylie. After a little detective work, Shannon and Jack uncover the ...
Writing in Solitude: Thoughts on
My Prison,
My Home
My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran By Haleh Esfandiari Publisher: HarperCollins Yesterday morning, while getting ready for school, I was listening to Susan Page interview an Iranian-American woman named Haleh Esfandiari on the Diane Rehm Show. In 2007, Esfandiari went to Tehran to visit her Mother. As she was headed to the airport to go home, she was robbed and her passports were taken. Esfandiari could not leave the country. When she then applied for new passports, the Iranian authorities became suspicious. They subjected her to long interrogations, and eventually, she was put into solitary confinement ...
Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks [rating:5] This book follows the life of Olive Kitteridge, a strong-willed, say-it-like-she-sees-it, junior high school math teacher. Olive is married to kind-hearted pharmacist, Henry. Throughout the book, Strout dips you in and out of the lives of the Kitteridges, their son Christopher, their friends, and their acquaintances, while offering a deeper glimpse into the inner struggles of marriage, parenthood, and aging. Olive and Henry are glaring opposites in personality, and seemingly, in everything else. One wonders, as we often do in real life, how two people who are so different come together, what keeps ...
For Women who hold up “Half The Sky”
“There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us mere accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.” —Friedrich Schiller Credit chance, destiny, divine intervention, or just good marketing, but I have been bumping into the topic of human rights for women time and again over the last few months. I have always had an interest in the topic, but the issue is no longer one where I can bury my head in the sand and tell myself that there is nothing I can do. It all began this last August when I came across a link to ...
Review: Seven by Jacqueline Leo
[rating: 4] Seven, written by Jacqueline Leo, is a compilation of ways that the number seven reoccurs in likely, and not so likely places. From identifying Confucius's seven ways to the good life to observing the seven colors of a rainbow, Leo examines this commonly reoccurring number as it relates to a myriad of topics such as religions, learning processes, and music. In addition, this book is filled with accompanying pictures, illustrations, and a lovely touch of color. When I first heard about Seven, I assumed the book must be about numerology. However, while there was a brief mention of numerology, that is ...
Where The Wild Things Are — A Movie Review
Earlier in the week, I made plans to spend Sunday afternoon enjoying a nice relaxing drive up the canyon to see the pretty fall colors with the family. It started off great, but by midway through the drive my nice family outing had disintegrated into fighting, hurt feelings, and everyone in the car looking for the nearest exit. If the car hadn't been moving so fast, I think we all might have bailed. In that moment, I felt a little bit like Max in the book "Where The Wild Things Are," by Maurice Sendak. All I wanted to do was ...
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