By Bob Cherny on May 5, 2012
This is a light, loving reminiscence of a career working within one of the most public of public companies in the world. It is the chronicle of a man who touched millions of lives and whose influence is easy to understate standing as he did in the shadows of people who saw themselves as larger than life.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Robert H. Cherny | Tagged disney, disney book, disney memoir, in service to the mouse, jack lindquist, melinda j. combs, mickey mouse, walt disney |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 27, 2012
I fully admit I probably never would have read this book had it not been free. I also quickly realized I could only handle it in small doses, so I read 2 or 3 of the essays each night and then gave it a rest until I completed it.
Posted in Anthology, Educational, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged advice for writers, agent advice, free writing advice, j.a. konrath, novel advice, publishing advice, scott nicholson, write good or die, writer advice |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 5, 2012
Imagine being the outsider amongst a dozen siblings. You are the one who is eager to fit in and be a good worker like your older brothers, but you are labeled “worthless” by your father. You yearn for the attention of your mother, but she is too busy raising your younger siblings and attending to the family household.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amish childhood, amish memoir, amish nonfiction, childhood abuse, childhood memoir, orva schrock, worthless boy |
By Lloyd Lofthouse on April 4, 2012
“Yes China” by Clark Nielsen is an honest memoir written by a young American going to China to teach English in an alien and foreign culture. Nielsen pulls no punches in describing himself and his experiences teaching ESL in China, and is not shy when it comes to scorching himself and his former religion in the process.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Lloyd Lofthouse, Travel | Tagged china, china memoir, china nonfiction, china travel, clark nielsen, lloyd lofthouse, yes china |
By Nick Vasey on April 2, 2012
What becomes obvious almost immediately with The Path (Book 1 – Spirit and Mind), is that the author, Eric A. Smith, has embarked on a monster project of generalist education … who are we, what came before us, how did we get here, what are we doing, what are we like, what does it all mean, and where are we going, etc?
Posted in Educational, Nick Vasey | Tagged anthropology, communications theory, cosmology, eric a. smith, exploring cutting-edge psychology, neurochemistry, physiology, self-development, spirit and mind, the path book 1 |
By Jaime Hypes on March 8, 2012
We are raised in a society that encourages us to not age, stay young, and live longer. That if we can find that magic potion, the world will open up for us because we will not get old- because, if you get old, it is all over. Media bombards us with images and ideas that youth is equal to life, love and happiness. Staying young-looking is what you should want to do, because getting old flat-out sucks. With all this being drilled into us, it is great to see a book like The 100 Best Ways to Stop Aging & Stay Young, which promotes not the idea that getting old is undesirable, but that living a healthy life is the key to living a fuller life.
Posted in Health, Jaime Hypes, Non-Fiction | Tagged health and fitness, healthy living, jaime hypes, Julia Maranan, non-fiction, The 100 Best Ways to Stop Aging & Stay Young |
By Shannon Yarbrough on February 13, 2012
I won a copy of this book from a GoodReads give away. Had I explored it a bit more before signing up for the raffle, I probably would have had second thoughts. Upon receiving it, I thumbed through it quickly to browse the photographs and was surprisingly shocked at the instructional pages on how to slaughter chickens and pigs. That extremity aside, the rest of the book is a plethora of good information when it comes to urban gardening.
Posted in Educational, Home/Family/Food, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged annette cottrell, growing your own, joshua mcnichols, sustainable living, urban farm, urban farm animals, urban farm handbook, urban garden, urban handbook |
By Gail Bradney on December 30, 2011
One month after her husband-to-be proposed to Dr. Diana Denholm, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. She married him, and for the next 11 years until his death she was his primary caregiver as he suffered through surgery, chemo, and congestive heart failure, followed by a heart transplant, skin cancer, a choking disorder, Parkinson’s, and many more dire conditions—ranging from gout to osteoarthritis—too numerous to name here. Upon hearing this story, is it so wrong to feel sympathy for the wife?
Posted in Gail Bradney, Health, Home/Family/Food, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged caregiver, caregiver story, caregiver wife, caregiving, Diana Denholm PhD, gail bradney, hunter house publishers, The Caregiving Wife's Handbook |
By Jaime Hypes on December 15, 2011
Cooking for one is not something most people want to try to tackle. That’s why there’s a plethora of frozen dinners, right? Sure, we say to ourselves, “This year I will really make the effort to cook special meals for myself and treat my body to the healthy food it deserves.” Somehow, though, the idea seems to fall by the wayside before it even gets started. “It’s too hard to make a meal just for one person,” “I end up wasting so much of what I make,” “Why spend time cooking just for me?,” or “I just don’t know what to make for just me.”
Posted in Home/Family/Food, Jaime Hypes | Tagged cookbook for one, healthy eating for one, one bowl, recipes for one, stephanie bostic |
