This fun and hilariously-illustrated guide irreverently compares the lives of childless-by-choice couples to those who have decided to reproduce.  Features include a quiz designed to determine if you’re ready to make the big announcement to family and friends; “earnest,” “witty,” and “end of conversation” sample responses to the inevitable question of why you refuse to [...]

Books are a great way to expand your mind and help you escape to another world or time, but children don’t seem to have that same view. When I was working at a public library in a small town in New Jersey called Roxbury, getting children interested in reading was sometimes a problem.
There was one [...]

How excited am I that this just came in for me at the library?  This will make perfect beach reading for the weekend (if it would ever stop raining).

Where to start? I suppose I should confess that this is one of those rare times that I went into a book with a preconceived notion about what I’d find. To be more precise, I thought I would hate it. The jacket copy alone set off my “ick factor”. A girl who falls in love [...]

I have read most of Bill Bryson’s works and love his dry sense of humor, originality, and cultural insights.  I also love his delivery (having previously listened to A Walk in the Woods), so I decided to check out from my local library the audio version of his recent memoir.  I have never enjoyed my [...]

Since my vacation in Italy last month, I’m obsessed with all things Italian.  So this gardening/cookbook book is my new bible.  I’m going to spend the rest of the summer trying to grow lots of tomatoes and making every recipe in the book.  My favorites so far are Bread Lasagna and Mini Herb Frittatas - [...]

Over the past four years I have noticed an increase in one particular type of profile that I enter into the Syndetics database. It’s not a fiction, nonfiction or children’s profile, but series. More and more authors are writing books that belong to a continuous series. They focus on a repetitive main character or group [...]