Loved, Loved, LOVED this book! Agatha Christie is known for her excellent writing and descriptive mysteries. This book, was no different. One of the things I really like about Agatha Christie’s books is the language. English has so many variations. It seems the the older books are written in a clear and easy to decipher…
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Recycled Book Reading Challenge: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Hi there 🙂 Elegance of the Hedgehog was my February read for the Recycled Book Reading Challenge. I really liked this book. It isn’t written in the usual manner. I expected with a setting like wealthy lodging in France, that it would be from the perspective of the well-to-do. However, it is not. Which is…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
This 1992 novel by Michael Crichton was a pretty good read. I’m not sure where I managed to pick up this book. As I don’t normally purchase books that have been made into movies, I’m thinking this was something that was passed along to me by a friend. I like detective novels, in small doses….
Book Review: Three Million’s a Crowd by Leenna Naidoo!
Hi there! I am really excited about today’s post 🙂 I am reviewing the book ‘Three Million’s a Crowd’ by our own Leenna Naidoo! Leenna is the blogger behind In betweener and she is a well accomplished author! It is a privilege to have the opportunity to review her work. I had the pleasure of…
The Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Terror’s Cradle by Duncan Kyle
The 1970’s seems to have been a great period for the adventure & suspense novel. This book serves as a prime example. I purchased this book at a used book store for about .10 cents. I love finding books in English around places like these because they don’t sell so well, only the rare customer…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
Greetings my fellow earthlings 🙂 Today, finally – I’m on time! I’m not sure where I found this book. Honestly, I’ve been dragging it around with me for the past decade and I never cracked the spine. Now I have, it feels good & I can pass this book along to someone else who might…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: America’s Best State Fair Recipes by Catherine Hanley
Hi there 🙂 My sincerest apologies for being late this month! I really wanted to try some of these recipes first, and since I had the flu, it took a bit longer than expected. I really love the recipes in this book. They look so delicious! The only problem I’m having, is that I don’t…
Book Review: ‘Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home’ by Dane Cobain @danecobain
Hello again, all 🙂 I am happy to be reviewing another great read by Dane Cobain today! I did not see this book coming. After reading ‘Former.ly‘ by Dane Cobain, I was thrilled to have the chance to review several of his books. After all, he is an incredibly talented author and I admire his…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Bartending For Dummies, mini edition! #challenge
Hello all 🙂 It’s that time again, time for the Recycled Book Reading Challenge! This was a good one and a very fast read, especially since it fits in the palm of my hand. I will be keeping this one in the kitchen for reference when entertaining! 😉 This is my first ‘For Dummies’ book…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Walt Whitman, Selected Poems
I was really excited to find this book! Walt Whitman is hailed as an American superhero of nineteenth century poetry & essays. His book, Leaves of Grass, left a lasting impression on students worldwide…especially this one. What can I say about this book? If you like poetry, symbolism, American history….you’ll love this book. Much of…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
Hello! Welcome to my Recycled Book Reading Challenge post for my April read! I did  and did not like this one. I must admit, this is the first Ann Cleeves book that I have read. Allow me to explain. The story starts out with Magnus Taint, an older gentleman with a mental disability who is blamed…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Cover Her Face by P.D. James #RBRC
I love P.D. James. I’ve read quite a few P.D. James books and I get sucked in within the first 30 pages. As it should be 🙂 When I went to my bookshelf of dusty old books and I saw this beauty, I just new it would be perfect to be waiting for me upon…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Dante’s Inferno
A classic piece, I was so excited when I saw this book…and for all of 10 pennies! I think most of us are familiar with Dante’s 9 rings of hell. In the 1300’s, Dante gets lost in the woods. When Virgil, a ghost, offers to help him find his way back. Virgil can lead Dante…
Former.ly: The rise and fall of a social network by Dane Cobain @danecobain #formerly
I have been reading Dane Cobain’s books for awhile now. Former.ly is the newest that I’ve gotten my hands on, and as always with this author, I got hooked into this book almost immediately. Dane Cobain is a young UK author with 5 published books under his belt. I really enjoy this author, partly because…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Wicked by Paul Jennings & Morris Gleitzma
Hi guys 🙂 Again, I am late on this. My apologies, I did last months so late that my brain just skipped right over the 1st of this month! So, this is my Recycled Book Reading Challenge book for this month: Wicked by Paul Jennings & Morris Gleitzma. Even though this is primarily a children’s…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge! Hitman: Enemy Within
I am sooooo late posting this, this month. My apologies! The holidays carried me away and I just could not complete the book in time. My apologies! My read for the month of December (and part of January) is Hitman: Enemy Within by William Dietz. I am not sure how I found myself with this…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Sandstorm by Michael Asher
This book was passed along to me by a friend of mine after he finished reading it. It’s been sitting on my bookshelf for awhile, so I thought it would be a great pick for November’s Recycled Book Reading Challenge. This book is set in the Sahara, during the 50’s. It is a bit cliché…
Book Review: Futuring the Future by Michael F. Kaufmann #FuturingtheFuture
Firstly, I must admit that this book was a bit difficult to follow. So please understand that this may influence my review a bit, as I was unable to completely grasp some things. Written in a simple style, this book is both fiction and non-fiction, woven together in an intricate tale which blurs the lines…
Book Review: Hi-tech Hijack by Dov Nardimon #HiTechHijack
This is one of those adventure books that I did not want to stop reading. It sucked me into the story from the very beginning. Which, I love 😉 Eddie, an Israeli career scientist who is on the never ending quest to cure cancer with the Ebola virus, finds himself and his partner in a…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
Welcome to my November 1st post for the Recycled Book Reading Challenge! If you would like to join, please check out the original post here for the ‘rules’ and start reading! For those awesome ones of you who are already doing the monthly challenge, I wanted to let you know that I’ve decided to extend…
Window to Another Dimension: The Art of Orna Ben-Shoshan #AWindowtoAnotherDimensionTheartofOrnaBenShoshan
A very cool and original book about the art of Orna Ben-Shoshan and the artist herself. Her art is somewhat surreal and somewhat not. She is an artists in the 2000’s, yet her oil paintings contain almost cartoonesque medieval figures and colours. The appeal, for me anyway, is that in each painting there is something…
A Simple Life by Giora Amir #ASimpleLife
This book, an autobiographical memoir told in first person narrative form gives us, the reader a vivid glimpse into the lives and thoughts of  a boy coming into manhood during the infantile stages of the holocaust and throughout. This book tugged at my heart strings like no other in a very long time. A must-read!…
Book Review: Five Seasons inThe Kitchen #FiveSeasonsinTheKitchen
I really really like this cookbook! The recipes are unique and awe inspiring, and set out in such a way to help the reader follow a Zen-inspired lifestyle. The 5 seasons are set as Spring, Summer, Late Summer, Autumn and Winter. Each season has its foods (seasonal fruit and vegetable), the colors that normally accompany…
Recycled book reading challenge: Fat Tuesday, by Sandra Brown
Hello all and welcome to my Recycled Book Reading Challenge book for September! I’m not usually one for romance novels, but I do love suspense. So when you mix the two, this book is the result. I think I found this book on the english rack at the second hand shop for 0,25€. Published in…
Green Smoothies: The weightloss & detox secret #GreenSmoothiesTheWeightLossDetoxSecret
Greetings everyone! As most of you know, I’ve been on a slow-boat voyage to healthier living. Diet, exercise, hard work and a smile 🙂 So, you can guess correctly that I was a happy thing when I got my hands on this smoothie recipe book. At first I thought it would be just like every…
Book Review:Broken Leaves of Autumn by Eli Hai #Review
This book begins with Jeff and his younger sister Pam, setting the stage in a home with a drunken, abusive father and a beautiful submissive mother. After Jeff returns home to discover that Pam has received the beating of a lifetime from her father, he starts planning to leave. No long after that, Jeff has had…
Book Review! Virgin Mary – Refuge city: The Scroll of Spera by Amos Castel el Halili #VirginMaryTheScrollofSpera
This is definitely a book which you cannot judge by its cover. Set in the late 1800´s, this book follows the life stories of 3 young women from very different backgrounds. Mary, the U.S. presidents daughter who bucks the system by making friends with her slave, Constanze who finds herself in a harem in the Ottoman…
Future worlds: A Science Fiction Anthology #futurehousepub
This Anthology, which includes the work of 5Â awesome science fiction authors is a good read. It contains the following intriguing short stories. One Man Falls by Mark R. Healy – When the Argoni arrive, there’s no time to play around. Our heroin Jahni learns a fast life-lesson as regards the need to make the sacrifices…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: King Lear by William Shakespeare
Hello! My apologies, time escaped me and I did not realize that yesterday was the 1st until quite late in the night. So I’m a day late…again. My pick for August for the Recycled book reading challenge is King Lear by William Shakespeare. I think I picked this up for 0,25€ at a second hand…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: The Heist by Janet Ivanovich & Lee Goldberg
My July’s recycled book reading challenge book is The Heist by Janet Ivanovich and Lee Goldberg. I really loved this book! This is the first book of a new series by these authors . I am an Ivanovich fan, so I was happy to see that it is penned with her usual humor. It begins…
Book Review: Blood Tide by Brian Burt #WWVBT
Blood Tide, book two of Aquarius Rising, by Brian Burt is a great read! As most of you know, I’m not a huge science fiction fan. However, I have recently found myself reading more and more science fiction and this book is a shining example of why – it’s interesting! I’ve been sucked into this…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
My June read for the Recycled Book Reading Challenge is ‘Bad Monkeys’ by Matt Ruff. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! So much so, that I am unable to pass it on. I have to keep it in my personal library to re-read at another time. The book is set in a Las Vegas mental ward…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Dealing With People You Can’t Stand
Written by Dr. Rick Brinkmann and Dr. Rick Kirschner, this book is actually a good one to have in your home reference library. Although I usually share my books with others once I’ve read them, there are a few which stay in my home for later use and this will be one of them. Published…
Book Review: Daughter of the Sun by Zoe Kalo #WWVBT
I literally could not stop reading this book. I was hooked within the first 2 chapters and found myself reading the entire day until I had read this book in its entirety. I haven’t done that in years! The setting begins in a convent/orphanage where Trinity, almost 17 years old, discovers that she does indeed…
Recycled Book Reading Challenge: Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
I chose the book ‘Domestic Violets’ by Matthew Norman, for April’s reading for the Recycled Book Reading Challenge. I have to say that I just could not put this book down. Published in 2011, it is relatively new (as recycled books go) and it was a smooth read because it really reflected many of the…
