by Summer D Clemenson | Jun 28, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
It is officially summer time and the kids are home. There is no better reason to be reading children’s books. I hope you are enjoying time in any book you enjoy but if you have kids, there is no better time than time spent reading with your kids. When you read to kids...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jun 20, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
My first experience with Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert was as a MP-3 that an acquaintance put on my iPod when the book first came out. I don’t generally listen audiobooks but I did enjoy the nonfiction travel biography, as read by Gilbert, herself. I saw the...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 29, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I am sort of listening to Tiffany Haddish in her interview on Colbert while I am typing up what I already wrote earlier and she is talking about her new book. I love listening to her. She is a a hoot! So her new book is called: I Curse You With Joy…I think I will have...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 20, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
The Ark and the Dove The Story of Noah’s Wife by Jill Eileen Smith is based on the scriptures from the bible found in Genesis 5:32 through 10:1 where we can learn about what was happening during the time of Noah and the building of the ark and what it was like to be...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 13, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Emmett Till was a black 14 year old boy, raised in Chicago, that had come for a visit to his great-uncle, Moses Wright’s sharecropping farm in Mississippi. Before he left Chicago, he was told by his mother to not look white people in the eye and refer to them as sir...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 1, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I have always enjoyed Matthew McConaughey in movies and interviews. I have always been able to see that he is authentic and wise. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey is a autobiography that showcases how he has gotten to be that way. He is honest with himself and with...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 26, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I just finished a biography about a woman scientist and I loved it. I was never good at science. But Finding the Mother Tree Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard kept me engaged. I think it is because she loves the trees so much. She was taught to...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 22, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Happy April! I have been enjoying working on rebuilding my children’s book collection so for the next few months we will be exploring some of my own books. I have really loved going through my favorite books and remembering reading them to the children I have loved....
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 3, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein is a literary fiction book that takes place in Trinidad in the 1940’s. Hosein takes the first few chapters of this novel to help you realize the vast difference between the classes of people, especially our main characters. Hans and...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 2, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I do know that I am at least 3 days late with this article but I do believe that wonderful things can happen in only 3 days…which is why so many people celebrate Resurrection Sunday. In reality my family was really busy in the month of March which is why I am late but...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 22, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I had seen previews for the movie Killers of the Flower Moon and meant to see it and then forgot about it. Then one night I saw Martin Scorsese on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and really enjoyed his interview and I was reminded that I wanted to make time to see...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 29, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
At 3 years old, the main character, Pik-Shuen, immigrated from China to Canada. She was with her mother and grandparents; her father stayed back in Hong Kong to keep working. They were very poor and they adults worked a lot but the short stories shared talk about...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 28, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I have been working through a bag of books that I am supposed to pass onto Jamie’s sister, Joy, and I am almost through them all. In fact, now that I have finished The Invasion of Heaven by Michael B. Koep, I only have one more book to go. I was really surprised that...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 27, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I was really blessed to come from a family that loved books. My mother, my aunt and mostly my nana really instilled my love for books into me. Nana could tell the best stories, whether she was telling me about my ancestors or she was reading a story from a book or she...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 20, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro begins on August 27, 1985, when three teenagers get into a car and make choices that change all their lives and the lives of their families forever. Sarah and Theo Wilf live but their parents never really talk about what happened and it...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 12, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
The Manhattan Girls by Gill Paul takes place in New York City in 1921 where men are in charge and the liquor is illegal. 4 women create a bridge club which turns into a great friendship. Dorothy (Dottie) Parker renowned author, known for her great wit. Was very...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 29, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Happy New Year! I don’t believe in making resolutions but I do believe in doing my best every day. So after committing to 7 books a month for the end of 2023, I decided that I might want to change gears to free up more time for other things. However, I still enjoy...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 26, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I have this bag of books that my sister, Jamie Holloway, gave me that says Books for Joy on it. Joy is Jamie’s sister. Jamie lives in the Portland area and Joy lives near me. Both of them do not drive so I have been given the opportunity to read these books and pass...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 23, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Fuel Your Wellness
The article was originally posted on Wellness Works NW on January 16, 2024. Locally owned by Christen and Willow Ellis, this mother-daughter team has worked to bring their creativity and desire for natural ingredients together to create Crafty Works, LLC, where they...
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