My mom bought me this book as a Christmas gift, probably because in the past year I have become quite the cooking junkie, although nothing like Julie Powell. I like to cook and I always enjoy a good challenge (see: read a book a week), but this one I couldn’t do. The episodes of cooking brains, slicing apart a live…
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the perfect wife: the life and choices of laura bush by ann gerhart I have always been fascinated by the American presidents and their families. When I saw The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush on the biography shelf in the library, I was intrigued. Despite George W. constant appearances in the news, Laura is almost completely…
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One of my goals for 2007 was to read a book a week and write about each book here. We shall see how this goes. The Goose Girl was an excellent book, and I’m glad to have started the year out with a book I enjoyed so much. My in-laws sent me this book for my birthday, which was way…
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In most cases, I believe that a book is better than its movie counterpart. I hate watching a good book butchered by a movie adaptation (Ella Enchanted may well be one of the most heinous crimes). Even good movie versions of books are rarely equal to their books; I loved the 1994 version of “Little Women” with Winona Ryder and…
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BABY PROOF – EMILY GIFFIN Baby Proof is the third book I’ve read by Emily Giffin (the first two were Something Borrowed and Something Blue), and I liked this one the least of the three novels. Of course, I read the first books on vacation, so that may have something to do with it . . . Baby Proof is…
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