Book Reviews

Sunday Best & Giveaway Winner

by Trish August 8, 2010

As I sometimes do on Sundays, I would like to share a few links that I have run across recently which may provide some benefit to others (perhaps informational, thought-provoking or just plain fun). Oh, you want to know who won the giveaway? All in good time, my friends, all in good time. Okay, okay, [...]

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Cowboy & Wills: Review and Giveaway

by Trish July 31, 2010

I recently received a review copy of Cowboy & Wills: A Remarkable Little Boy and the Puppy That Changed His Life by Monica Holloway, which is the story of her son Wills’ diagnosis with autism and the journey she embarked on to find answers and the help that he needed. Amazingly enough, one of the [...]

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Fall Into Reading Wrap-Up Post

by Trish December 23, 2009

Wow – this fall went by very quickly! I haven’t been posting much about books lately; heck, I haven’t been posting about much of anything – it’s been so busy around here. Anyway, my goal for Fall Into Reading 2009 wasn’t so much to read specific books as it was to go through my huge [...]

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Nourishing Hope Book Giveaway Winner

by Trish October 5, 2009

Thanks to everyone who entered to win the copy of Nourishing Hope for Autism. Skipping over the one commentor who did not want to be entered in the drawing, there were 10 entries, and here is the result from Random.org: So, the winner is Janet, who left the following comment: Janet September 29, 2009 at [...]

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Nourishing Hope for Autism: A Review and Giveaway

by Trish September 28, 2009

Despite my desire to limit outside obligations and time commitments, I jumped at the chance to receive a review copy of Nourishing Hope for Autism: Nutrition Intervention for Healing Our Children by Julie Matthews. Written for parents, this book provides both scientific explanations of how and why autism diets work, as well as how to [...]

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Fall Into Reading 2009

by Trish September 22, 2009
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Earlier this year, I participated in Callapidder Days’ Spring Reading Thing challenge and really enjoyed it. However, I wasn’t very successful in meeting my main goal, which was to finish the various non-fiction books I had started and left laying around the house. I just couldn’t make myself do it. I have read a lot [...]

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What’s On Your Nightstand?

by Trish July 29, 2009

I have been totally horrible about blogging since I came back from my little break, I know. I just have not been able to find a schedule that works for me, partly because of our various summer activities and partly due to some contract work that I have taken on. And I haven’t done a [...]

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Catching Up On What I’ve Been Reading

by Trish July 13, 2009

I missed posting for What’s On Your Nightstand from 5 Minutes for Books in June, and that’s the first time I’ve not participated since they started the feature last July. So I thought I would take a moment to catch up on what I’ve been reading lately. I also just realized that one of my [...]

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What’s On My Nightstand Right Now

by Trish May 28, 2009
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I don’t really have anything that stood out from the last month, so no reviews this time, but here’s what’s lined up to be read next: Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton Sweet Caroline by Rachel Hauck Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes! by Robin Jones Gunn True Colors by Kristin [...]

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Read Together Outcomes

by Trish May 1, 2009

The idea of the Read Together 2009 Challenge, created by Jennifer at Snapshot, was to set a goal (or goals) for connecting with your children through reading in the month of April. Here were my goals for reading more with Michael during the month of April: Take him to the library once a week to [...]

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What I’ve Been Reading

by Trish April 27, 2009

Okay, I know this is a day early, but for this month’s Nightstand post, I wanted to share about the rest of the novels on my original Spring Reading Thing list. I still haven’t made any progress on the nonfiction books I planned to read, unfortunately, but there’s still time. A Hundred Years of Happiness: [...]

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Spring Reading Thing: What I’ve Read So Far

by Trish April 13, 2009

Over three weeks into the Spring Reading Thing 2009 and I haven’t made any progress on the books I really need to be reading (i.e. the non-fiction ones that have been sitting around either on my shelf or on my list for a long time). I am going to start working on those this week [...]

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Read Together Update

by Trish April 12, 2009

I can’t believe we are almost halfway through April already and that Easter has come and gone! It also means the Read Together 2009 challenge is halfway through, so I wanted to post an update on how things are going with my efforts. My goals included several things I wanted to do to increase my [...]

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Book Giveaway Winners

by Trish April 6, 2009

Thanks to everyone who entered my book giveaway over the last week! And now, the winners (chosen randomly): The copy of Rex: A Mother, Her Autistic Child, and the Music that Transformed Their Lives is going to Meg from The Pages of Our Crazy Life. Meg said, “I know I’m a complete sap, but I [...]

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Spring Reading Thing 2009

by Trish April 3, 2009

Well, I missed the beginning of the Spring Reading Thing 2009 start date by a few days two weeks, but that’s okay because I have until June 20th to read everything on my list. I actually wasn’t sure what to put on my list, mainly because I read constantly. For example, I listed all the [...]

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