Books

If you are visiting here for the first time, thank you for stopping by! If you have been to my blog before, thank you for returning! This is my first International Comment Leaving Week here at my new blog Bereaved and Blessed (formerly known as Four of a Kind)! However I have been blogging since April […]

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Welcome to Bereaved and Blessed! If you are here for the first time you can read about me and my blog here. You can also check out the other tabs above the header (which I designed all by myself) to find out more about me, my new blog and other places I write. There are also pages […]

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Top of the mornin’ to ya! It’s that time of year when we drink Shamrock Shakes, eat Irish Soda Bread and write rhymes for Lori’s Limerick Chick Contest! I was honored to be the 2011 LimChick Winner last year with my entry about our Stirrup Queen Mel’s book Life from Scratch. Many thanks to all who voted for […]

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I’ll admit it, the main reason I signed up to read and review Why Women Need Fat by Dr. William D. Lassek and Dr. Steven J.C. Gaulin, my fifth BlogHer Book Club selection, was because of a line in a summary about it which said something about “why those last five pounds seem impossible to […]

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The Magic Room by Jeffrey Zaslow is my fourth BlogHer Book Club read and a truly extraordinary book. To say that I loved it, is an understatement. Reading The Magic Room reminded me of watching two of my favorite documentary style television shows: 60 Minutes and Real Sports. I love the way the correspondents and producers on those […]

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Exhale Magazine‘s Fall/Winter 2011 Issue is here! This issue’s theme focuses on “Dreams.” I wrote a book review about Michael C. Barr’s Swimming in Circles and an essay (adapted from one of my previous blog entries) called Amazing Things Will Happen! that is among those featured in this current issue. For those of you not […]

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