If you have ever wanted to chuck it all and just take off with a back pack this would be a great book to read before making the decision to go. If your not brave enough to do it you can live through the author Rita Golden Gelman's words. Descriptive...

http://www.caribousmom.com/2009/07/22/random-reading-challenge/ I will use my books listed as lay in wait. I have numbered them and I'm off to random.org to see what's next. How cool is that! And the first book up is #5 The Lace Reader!

Between now and end of year 2009 read 5 books, your choice in the following (my choices, so far, subject to change on a whim): 1. A book featuring and animal (From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava) 2. An adult fantasy book...

I wish I could have a sense of humor about these types of books but there is always going to be the left and the right and when both sides have spokes persons who take their arguments to the extreme no wonder nothing gets accomplished. I actually...

An epic of a book comparing the parallel lives of the two men. Stephan E. Ambrose does a great job not getting diverted in the various directions his subjects could have taken him on. Keeps a clear path to when the two warriors actually meet. I really...