I’ve been sick the past two days with a nasty cold (sore throat, slight fever, and that achy cold feeling and sucks out all your energy).  So, I have been drinking boatloads of tea and reading while curled up under a sleeping bag on the couch. Today I finished reading Three to Get Deadly by [...]

I finished another book in the Stephanie Plum series, Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich. The books are contemporary crime fiction and absolutely hilarious. After getting laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer, Stephanie finds herself working for her slimey bond bailsman cousin Vinnie as a bounty hunter.  She has a knack [...]

Every once in a great while you read a book that changes your perception of history, politics, and culture.  Omnivor’s Dilemma is one of those books for me.  The last book that I can safely claim had this big of an impact on my views about the world was Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of [...]