Living, Learning, and Loving Life

Book Blast and Giveaway: Yours Affectionately, Jane Austen by Sally Smith O’Rourke

Amanda — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:41:21 +0000

Yours Affectionately, Jane Austen

Was Mr. Darcy real? Is time travel really possible? For pragmatic Manhattan artist Eliza Knight the answer to both questions is absolutely, Yes! And Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley Farms, Virginia is the reason why! His tale of love and romance in Regency England leaves Eliza in no doubt that Fitz [...]

Win John D. MacDonald Books in the May There Always Be Books Hop!

Amanda — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:32:48 +0000

This hop is hosted by Literary Addicts and is from May 20 at 12:00am – May 31 @11:59pm EST.

I’ve had a lot of books go out through Paperbackswap, but I still have a large collection, so for this hop, you get to choose from the following John D. MacDonald novels. They [...]

Kid Quotes (5/18)

Amanda — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:24:57 +0000

Welcome to my not-as-regular-as-it-should-be post chronicling the brilliant, fun, and crazy things my kids say.

We’ve been using sandpaper letters (borrowed from a friend) with Bennett for quite a while to help him learn the difference between stuff like p and q, b and d, and a couple others that I can’t remember right now. [...]

Book Blast and Giveaway: The Enemy by Larry Bograd

Amanda — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:17:01 +0000

The Enemy

A red-hot political thriller from a blue state author.

Buried among the thousands of financial transactions he reviews each day, analyst Randy Duncan finds a secret web of laundered money financing the assassination of the President, which, in turn, will lead the country into war. Can Randy and his law-student daughter Clare [...]

Seven Years Ago…Yesterday

Amanda — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:03:39 +0000

*sigh* Yes, I managed to miss my Blogoversary, and wouldn’t even have noticed if the kids and I hadn’t been talking about rocks. We got a “rocks” DVD from Blockbuster, and Jeffrey said he didn’t want to watch it because he doesn’t like geology. I told him it was only thirty minutes, and give it [...]