I have to admit up front that I am a huge Pam Grier fan, so it’s only logical that I would also love her recent memoir Foxy, My Life in Three Acts. When I found this book on the shelf, I definitely was surprised to realize that although I have seen Pam Grier in many movies and television shows, I knew very little about her personal life. I’m glad that I read the memoir, because it portrays the life of a survivor who has confronted many obstacles throughout her life.

Pam Grier has had one tough life. She was raped as a child, and later raped again as a young adult. She’s been extremely unlucky in the area of love, dating Richard Pryor and Freddie Prinze-two comedians plagued with drug addiction. She was abandoned by her father, and later abandoned by a lover during her battle with cancer. Her life makes my hard life seem easy.

Throughout all of her trials and tribulations, however, Pam Grier emerges as a resilient and strong-willed woman. She throws all her energy and talent into creating a successful career for herself. She refuses to submit to one of the loves of her life or convert to Islam in order to marry him. She eventually walks away from dysfunctional relationships with self-destructive or selfish men. She learns to live a more simple life and depend on herself. She battles cancer and comes out a victor. She is a survivor.

I always enjoy reading memoirs about people who have lived a hard life and have still managed to find peace in their lives. Reading such memoirs often make me think that what I thought was difficult is minor compared to the horrors that other people have had to face. Reading memoirs about women who have remained strong in the face of heartbreak also gives me strength. After reading Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, I now have a newfound respect for Ms. Grier and hopefully after reading it you will too!

Warning: This review may contain a spoiler. Sort of.

Ever since I was a young adult I’ve always been obsessed with the story of Sybil, the young girl with multiple personalities. I don’t remember when I first heard about the story, but I’m pretty sure that I saw the mini-series on television and then ran out to buy the book. I was obsessed with it at first-not so much by the issue of multiple personalities, but for the horrible cases of sexual, physical and emotional abuse that a young girl suffered at the hands of her mother.

If you aren’t familiar with the story, it is about a patient by the name of Sybil (a pseudonym) who enters therapy after she finds herself in a strange town with no recollection of what happened to her. As a result of therapy, she uncovers horrible memories of abuse at the hands of her mother and discovers that she has multiple personalities. Sybil is finally cured after working with her psychiatrist and a book is written about her, although her true identity was kept secret from the public.

In the book Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case, Debbie Nathan embarks on an investigation to uncover the life and story of the real identity of “Sybil”. Her investigation uncovers a web of deceit and unethical practices that center around the lives of three women-an unscrupulous female psychiatrist, an ambitious female author, and an easily manipulated patient who may have been taken advantage of.

Debbie Nathan provides a minor historical context of the mental health profession’s treatment of women-it’s neglect, lack of formal ethics and over diagnosis of hysteria by male medical professionals. Nathan provides an argument that Shirley Mason, the patient also known as Sybil, was an impressionable woman who was oppressed by the rigid rules of her religion and suffered from unexplainable health problems. Nathan’s claims suggest that the entire story about her multiple personalities was manufactured by an ambitious female psychiatrist who provided addictive drugs to Shirley and implanted false memories of abuse that never actually happened.

‘Sybil Exposed’ has left me with even more questions and confusion, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Was Sybil even abused by her mother? Why wasn’t Debbie Nathan ever able to confirm any cases of abuse? Were Shirley/Sybil and her psychiatrist having a relationship? Why did they live together? Did Shirley/Sybil even have any multiple personalities? How were they able to suddenly disappear the moment that her psychiatrist told her that she needed to be cured so that the book could be written? Was Shirley/Sybil taken advantage of by her psychiatrist, cured by her psychiatrist, or was she in on the scam all along? Do multiple personalities even really exist??

Although the book is a bit slow in the beginning as it provides a background of Shirley Mason’s religion (i.e., Seventh Day Adventist) and provides a biography of the central characters in the book (Shirley, the psychiatrist and author), the storyline picks up and is an overall interesting and mysterious story. It’s a must read if you enjoy biography, nonfiction, mental illness, science and issues of feminism.

Have you read ‘Sybil Exposed’? What are your thoughts?

We recently wrote about the book “Ask Me About Mary Kay: The Truth Behind the Bumper Sticker on the Cadillac”. We really enjoyed the book, and although it somewhat portrays a darker side of the cosmetic mogul, it was still a delight to read about successful women who built empires for themselves.

Luckily one Wild Women Reviews reader will have the opportunity to win a copy of the book! All you have to do is leave a comment that answers the following question:

What is your favorite book about a strong, successful woman? Why was the book so significant for you?

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It’s that time of the year again, and people everywhere are scrambling to find the perfect gift for their loved ones. What is a more perfect gift for a bookaholic than receiving tons of interesting books to read throughout the winter season? The following books would make excellent gifts for any book lover:

Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel by Jeanette Walls
This book from the author of The Glass Castle tells the intoxicating life story of her grandmother Lily Casey Smith. By the age of six Lily was breaking horses with her father. At the age of fifteen she traveled by pony alone for five hundred miles to find a teaching job. Lily survived natural disasters, personal tragedies and lived through the Great Depression. This touching book about an indomitable and strong woman is bound to touch the heart of readers everywhere. Purchase the book on Amazon.

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
This novel takes place between 1930 and 1950, detailing the life of a man who after being kicked out of the military lives in Mexico with the famous Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. After Frida Kahlo’s famous lover Leon Trotsky is assassinated, the main character moves back to the United States and is later labeled as a subversive. An interesting mix of politics and historical fiction make this book a tantalizing read. Purchase the book on Amazon.

The Crying Tree: A Novel by Naseem Rakha
This dramatic story of love and redemption is a touching tale of the transformative and uplifting power of forgiveness. The novel centers on a couple whose son was violently murdered. After years of demanding the execution of her son’s killer, a mother reaches out and begins to forgive the murderer, while hiding her transformation from her family. Purchase the book on Amazon.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
This powerful book focuses on the life and enduring legacy that one African American woman made on science. Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman living in poverty who died from cancer at the age of 30. A sample of her cells were taken without her consent or family’s knowledge at the time of her death. Unbeknown to Henrietta’s family, who continued to live in poverty and poor health, Henrietta’s cells, termed as HeLa cells in the scientific community, became the building blocks to many scientific breakthroughs-including the cure for polio. Purchase the book on Amazon.

I was recently sent a book about the cosmetic industry, and I admit that I initially thought that I wouldn’t be interested in it since I am not really one of those “foo foo” hair and nails types of women. The book is called “Ask Me About Mary Kay: The Truth Behind the Bumper Sticker on the Pink Cadillac”. However, since I am interested in female entrepreneurs, I figured that maybe I’d have something to learn by reading the book since I know that the Mary Kay cosmetics company is a force to be reckoned with. I can honestly say that I enjoyed the book.

The book is written by Jackie Brown, one of the original consultants who joined the Mary Kay line of cosmetics in its early years of formation. It was interesting to read about the plight of females in the early 1960s and the obstacles that they had to overcome in order to be successful business women. At the time women couldn’t even get loans or buy a car with their own money without their husbands’ permission, while at the same time many women who began selling Mary Kay products began to earn more income than their husbands.

There were some times where I thought that the book dragged slowly with too much detail about how the business was formed and grown, and minute details about the conventions that the company had. However, looking back after reading it I think that many of what I thought were minute details ended up being significant in a later part of the story.

Throughout the book, the author paints such an intriguing portrait of the mysterious Mary Kay. Just who was this woman who managed to build a billion dollar cosmetics empire? Was she ethical or unethical? Was she collaborative or a dictator? Was she a liar, or a thief?

For years Jackie Brown looked up and idolized Mary Kay until one day a disagreement over money and pay caused a rift between the two women that resulted in Jackie Brown opening a competing cosmetics line and a huge legal and social battle between the two women and companies.

The book struck a serious nerve with me, having been royally betrayed by one of my mentors who I had idolized for years. I can relate to the heartbreak and disappointment that one feels when someone that they trusted and looked up to turns out to be unethical and stabs them in the back. I know exactly how Jackie Brown felt when many of her “friends” turned against her and took Mary Kay’s side in the battle, completely isolating her and spreading vicious rumors about her. And I know how it feels to always sometimes have a special place in a sad little part of your heart for someone who had betrayed you.

Was Mary Kay as unethical as this books makes her out to be? Certainly many successful women have larger than life horror stories that follow their legacy and paint them out to be the big bad ball busters. Did she really retaliate in the way that Jackie Brown claims she did, by having private investigators spy on Jackie, wiretap her house phone, and throw a bottle through her daughter’s window after Jackie opened up her competing cosmetics company? Who knows. The constant “Mary Kay had seven or nine or x amount of husbands” that is frequently alluded to throughout the book by Jackie, who pretty much claims to be a super ethical Christian wife, seems to be a bit suspect. When it boils down to it, who really betrayed who?

This book was definitely interesting to read, minus the last couple of chapters that detailed the author’s new cosmetics company, because when it all really boiled down to it…Mary Kay was the mysterious star of the story. After reading this book, I am definitely going to read some of the books written by Mary Kay, a highly persuasive and ambitious woman who created a billion dollar company that made many women rich in a time when the role of many women was that of housewife or secretary.

Purchase this book on Amazon.

This guest post was written by Rachel Simmons, author of The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls Courage and Confidence.

It’s been said that once you have a child, you look at the suffering of other families in a different way. You know what it means to love someone with your entire being, in a way that you never could have imagined before bringing your child into your life. In a way, every child becomes your child.

The suicides this week of two young men, Asher Brown and Tyler Clementi, are devastating, and they are sounding an alarm to all of us about the crisis state of bullying in this country. These tragic events are also a call to parents everywhere to stand up and speak out on behalf of tolerance, respect and dignity for children everywhere.

I can’t stop thinking about these two young men, and the burning humiliation they must have felt as they were dehumanized for their gender identity and sexuality. For parts of themselves they were born into, and could not change. Both were fighting to embrace who they were in a community as small as a dorm room and as large as a public middle school.

The suicides are also jarring wake-up call that we’re a long way off from an easy life for gay youth. I’m getting a little tired of hearing about how much easier it is to be a gay teen today. I don’t argue the point, but that doesn’t mean we’re off the hook.

According to the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s (GLSEN) National 2009 School Climate Survey, nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) students experienced harassment at school in the past year, and nearly two-thirds felt unsafe because of their sexual orientation. Nearly a third of LGBT students skipped at least one day of school in the past month because of safety concerns. And while, yes, there has been a decreasing trend in the frequency of hearing homophobic remarks, LGBT students’ experiences with more severe forms of bullying and harassment have remained relatively constant.

For all the rules and workshops and policies that anti-bullying advocates like me call for, there’s one pretty powerful weapon we can all use against bullying. It doesn’t cost anything, and you don’t need to bring any experts to your school to use it. It’s empathy. All of us – parents, teachers, mentors, big brothers and sisters – can talk with kids about what Asher Brown must have been feeling as he went to school, day after day: as he was tripped down the stairs, had his backpack emptied and its contents scattered, berated with insults like “fag.” You can ask: What emotions did he feel? Is there anyone at your school who goes through that? What can you do to help that person?

If your kids aren’t old enough to talk about the suicides, there are opportunities to model empathy all around you: when you give food to a hungry person, make eye contact with someone who is hurting, or acknowledge your own child’s pain by saying, “I know you must feel hurt right now, and I’m sorry.” Your children will learn to connect with the suffering of others, and feel the moral imperative to help, by watching you.

If you don’t already, institute a zero tolerance policy in your family for gay slurs. In schools all over this country, even the progressive ones, “gay” is a stand-in for stupid or weird. When kids use the word “gay” or “fag” as a slur, disrespect becomes part of their slang. When kids call other people or things gay, they dehumanize the people who actually are gay.

If you hear it in the backseat, in your kitchen, in the bleachers, say something. Be the person who stands up. Even if it embarrasses your child, do it. Check out this PSA and consider showing it to your kids, too.

Talk about and embrace the continuum of masculinity and femininity. An overwhelming number of kids get bullied because they look, act or speak in a way that deviates from the tough guy or girly girl. Most kids walk into schools every day where conventional gender identity is a source of respect and status – and a reason to put others down and disrespect them. Be the voice that exposes this injustice. Praise and support the gender-unconventional in your children and their friends. Support boys for being sensitive or unathletic; tell girls it’s okay if they don’t want to wear makeup, date or go shopping.

Talk about every human being’s right to dignity. This is a point Rosalind Wiseman makes beautifully. Even if you don’t support gay marriage or even a gay “lifestyle,” as some call it, you likely do believe that every human being is entitled to respect and dignity. Talk with your children about that distinction: we may not like every person we meet, or agree with everything they do, but each and every human being deserves to be respected and feel safe.

We can honor the memories of Tyler and Asher, and the others who took their lives this past week, by standing up for them and the countless other children who suffer every day at school. If not us, who? They are our children, too.

© 2010 Rachel Simmons, author of The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

Author Bio
Rachel Simmons is the author of New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. She is the founding director of the Girls’ Leadership Institute. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

By Jilliane Hoffman,
Author of Pretty Little Things

Last December, New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that more than 3500 registered sex offenders had been purged from the social networking sites Facebook and MySpace in the state’s first database sweep for sexual predators.

That’s 3500 caught, convicted and registered sex offenders who’d actually used their real names when they signed up for a Facebook or MySpace page. That’s not counting all the deviants that haven’t yet been busted, pled to a lesser charge, had charges dropped, never registered their emails with their probation or parole officers, socially communicate using an alias, or live outside the Empire State. With that in mind, consider this sobering statistic: According to the Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM), the average sex offender offends for 16 years before he’s finally caught. In that time span, he has committed an average of 318 offenses and violated 110 victims.

Wow. Now just imagine who your kids may be chatting with online.

The explosion of the Internet over the past decade has spawned fertile hunting grounds for sex offenders. Kids, and particularly teens, live their lives instantaneously and out loud on social networks, where every detail from where they’ll be hanging out that night to who they’ll be with and what they’ll be wearing when they get there is posted for all of their “friends” to see. And those friends are not just the traditional bunch of kids you’ve known since elementary school. Social networking sites and chat rooms have literally opened up a whole new cyber-world to children. Online, they can be “friends” with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all over the globe, most of whom they’ve never met outside of a WiFi connection. And of course, as the tragic headlines constantly remind us, in this faceless cyber world not everything is kid-friendly and not everyone is who they say they are.

There are over 665,000 registered convicted sex offenders living in the United States. According to a study commissioned by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, one in every seven kids has been approached by a sexual predator online. That’s 13% of children who use the Internet. Sex Offenders no longer need to leave the comfort of their living rooms to find and “groom” fresh victims. Rather, with just the click of a mouse, they can mingle in chatrooms, send and receive child pornography, and, of course, purview the walls of Facebook and the posts of MySpace like they might entrees on a dinner menu, replete with helpful personal information and pictures. Just ask the detectives who work online undercover or the producers of Dateline’s popular To Catch a Predator — in this fast-moving cyber-world, a predator can be anyone he wants to be: A twelve year-old boy, Jay-Z’s agent, a modeling scout, a fourteen year-old girl. And teens, being the invincible bunch they are, always believe they’ll be able to spot a poser or a predator a mile off on the computer, when the truth is they can’t — oftentimes until it is way too late. They’ve already been groomed.

Back in the mid 90′s, in response to the headline-making abduction of eleven year old Jacob Wetterling of Wisconsin, and the sexual assault and murder of seven year-old Megan Kanka by her neighbor, a repeat child sex offender in New Jersey, the feds enacted a series of laws designed to warn the public of the presence of dangerous sex offenders and heighten community awareness on an issue that was literally moving in right next door to Joe the Plumber. Each state was charged with establishing a sex offender registry and implementing a community notification program. The theory behind which was simple: Knowledge is power. If a sex offender is going to be out and about in the community, people — and more particularly, parents — should arm themselves with information about their identities and whereabouts so as to better protect their kids. Without promoting vigilantism, making yourself aware of the scum living in your zip code that your children might very well come in contact with and warning kids appropriately can be a very effective crime-fighting tool. But in today’s world, where every kid has a cell phone in their pocket and a computer in their room, it’s just not enough.

My daughter was in the fourth grade when a fellow eleven year-old classmate was approached on AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) by a 43 year old sexual predator who went by the screen name of “rooster69″ and claimed he was a 16 year-old boy. It wasn’t until he asked one of the little girl’s friends to send him nude pictures that one of the children finally spoke up. I thought I had more time to ready myself on the dangers of the Internet. I was wrong.

So what’s a parent to do? How can you make sure your kids are Facebooking with fellow thirteen year olds and not forty-three-year-old convicted sex offenders? I’m a big believer in the real world. Show kids the headlines. Let them read the stories of teens who disappeared or were assaulted after meeting up with someone they met online. The stories are out there, and there are plenty of them. Check out perverted-justice.com for a real eye-opener. Then talk to your kids about limiting the amount of personal information they post, particularly addresses and schedules; inappropriate posts and pictures; the new horrible growing fad of sexting; and finally, limiting the amount of “friends” they have and just what those friends are able to see. And as a parent you have to know of what you speak. So if you don’t have a Facebook or MySpace yourself, you better thoroughly check it out. And if you do allow your kid access to a social network, it should be a number one rule that he or she “friends” you with unrestricted access, so that you can monitor what he or she is doing.

Then make sure you do just that.

© 2010 Jilliane Hoffman, author of Pretty Little Things

Author Bio
Jilliane Hoffman was an Assistant State Attorney in Miami between 1992 and 1996. Until 2001 she was the Regional Law Advisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, advising special agents on complex investigations including narcotics, homicide, and organized crime. Pretty Little Things is her fourth novel, following the international bestsellers Retribution, Last Witness, and Plea of Insanity. She lives in Florida.

This evening I heard a bang outside my door and when I went to investigate I noticed that there was a book laying on the step below. Little did I know but that book would soon be my mental sanity that I have been desperately seeking for…well, quite a while now.

So far I have only read three chapters of The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Respond to People Who Dump on You, and How to Stop Dumping on Others but I must say that I am really getting into the book. It just seems that lately for maybe the last year or so I have been allowing people to bother me far too much at work.

It’s been a rough couple of years for various reasons, and it doesn’t help that the California educational system is completely imploding into a devastating financial crisis. A financial crisis is stress enough due to having to lay people off, move people around from site to site, reorganize people’s jobs and add on additional responsibilities, and all that fun stuff! Yet throughout it all I’ve also had to deal with the negativity of teachers’ and other staff members’ low morale as people are losing jobs while at the same time being subjected to attacks by politicians and the general public.

It’s a logical reaction that when people are under stress they sometimes dump their negativity onto other people. Over the past year on an every day basis someone is bound to snap at me, blame me for one thing or the other (oh, they love to blame some of us managers) and refuse to take responsibility for something. After a while it becomes tiring-always under attack, always being criticized, and always trying to remain professional to adults who seem to think that it’s okay to be rude and confrontational to their co-workers. As the months have progressed, I have also started to “act up” and sling their crap right back at them when they are dumping on me.

This is exactly what The Law of the Garbage Truck is about. Although I have only read a couple of chapters so far, this book is about the author’s philosophy of not internalizing the negativity of other people or turning around and acting like them. He posits that some people are like garbage trucks, driving around and dumping all of their garbage onto us. Instead of “letting it go”, he urges readers to watch out for garbage trucks, avoid them and let them pass on by. He also cautions readers against becoming angry and bitter if they have been dumped on, resulting in our lashing out and turning into a garbage truck ourselves.

I’ll admit that when I first started this blog that a twitter follower said “no self help books” and I completely agreed. I actually don’t even like or want to read many self help books. But for some reason this book feels really different to me, and it’s something that I really need to read considering that last week my boss told me that an evil woman hijacked and inhabited my body for the last two weeks.

At the back of the book there are four little cards about the law of the garbage truck, and at this exact moment I am so far so in love with the book that I am plotting this little idea in my mind to mail off the book to different people who also might want to read and review it, passing it on to the next person after they rip out their card in the book. Yes, I do have to say that I have effectively descended into nerd territory when it comes to this book.

Stay tuned for my ideas about the book when I am completely finished!

Reviewer: Della Lee

Kathryn Stockett’s first book, The Help, was a New York Times bestseller for good reason: It’s a story of historical significance that reverberates in the currents of modern racism. Three women in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, are redefining themselves in response to the social and political events of the Civil Rights era, yet one is astounded that struggles to use public restrooms and the house bathroom are being fought simultaneously.

Two of the women in The Help are black maids and one is a white college graduate. I quickly identified with Skeeter, the young white woman, and her discomfort with 60′s Deep South customs. I was a young girl in the South who found the level of obvious, unadorned racism shocking. Skeeter feels helpless to do anything, emotionally crippled by her mother’s emphasis on marraige and Southern society. Skeeter earned a degree from Old Miss, but what use is it to a plain unmarried woman in Mississippi? She wants to be a journalist but gets a part-time job at the local paper writing a household hints column.

Skeeter knows nothing about keeping a house, having been raised by the family’s black maid Constantine, who mysteriously disappeared while Skeeter was at college. She misses Constantine profoundly. Constantine was her mother in absentia, her encourager, her refuge. No one will tell her where Constantine went, or why. Skeeter’s mother, a widow with whom she lives, keeps her mouth shut and refuses to discuss Constantine. Neither will any of her friends. This loss, and her new job, drives Skeeter to reach out to the community of black maids.

Needing help with the most basic questions that have been mailed to the newspaper, Skeeter turns to Abileen, her best friend’s maid. Abileen is reluctant to get involved with this young white woman who shows up asking questions, first about how to get stains out of a shirt and next about what it’s really like to work for white folks.

Skeeter wants to write a book. Eventually she convinces Abileen to talk to her, privately and secretly, at night, about the reality of life in the kitchen, serving the meals, raising the children. Skeeter writes to a publisher who expresses a slight interest, but demands more stories from more maids before considering the book.

Abileen recruits Minnie, her best friend and an outspoken person who continually gets fired for saying the wrong thing. Minnie, who has been treated horribly by Hilly, one of Skeeter’s closest friends, is distrustful but decides to do it. The stories begin to flow, of the disrespect, abuse, and lies done by the white women who hire these maids.

More black maids talk to Skeeter, meeting secretly at night at Abileen’s house with Skeeter. The book becomes a community secret, kept as closely as the stories of what happens in the white houses. Abileen is not just the primary voice for the black maids. She is also the witness who sees and hears it all – like we the readers become. Skeeter cannot go back to who she was before she started writing. She has heard, and is beginning to notice, the truth.

Skeeter’s friends, Elizabeth, Celia, and Hilly, are the sometimes conscious villians of the story. Hilly and her hatred of Minnie are central to the plot. The stories told by the maids are stories from Skeeter’s friends’ homes. She tries to keep identities secret as whe writes, and Abileen helps her. Skeeter meets a man through one of her friends who seems to find her attractive. Skeeter’s mother is overjoyed at the prospect of a potential marraige. The man, Stuart, is not strongly developed. His shallow character is another reflection of the author’s view of Southern men and society – this time from outside the house.

We readers know the book will be published. The stories told by the black maids are too big to stay unheard. We find out what happened to Constantine. We dread what will happen when women in Jackson, Mississippi, read the book. What we fear comes to pass. The secrets can’t be kept any longer. Skeeter is shunned. Maids are fired. But Minnie’s action – the reason Hilly hates her – is the salvation. Read the book! It is an amazing story of a shameful time, and there is redemption in the truth.

I’m a shopaholic, but I am also pretty frugal and I love to look for deals for whatever it is I am shopping. So it makes perfect sense that I love the types of website where I can compare the prices of products and look for the best deal. I suppose for me it is all in the thrill of the chase, looking for that great deal, that is so attractive to me when I am shopping for this or that.

The Become: Shopping Your Way has a variety of products that offer a comparison shopping experience where shoppers can peruse the listings in order to find a great deal. It has products in the following categories: automotive, electronics, baby products, flowers, gifts, music, movies, clothing, computers, jewelry and much more. If you can imagine it, they have it and they also highlight comparisons between various products.

My favorite part of the year is close arriving-Halloween. I had decided that I wanted to be a lion or some other type of wild animal, since that pretty much goes with my nature. I have been banging my head against the wall, looking for something that I can wear and then lo and behold I finally came upon some leopard print pumps as well as an animal print dress. Or maybe I will just purchase a zebra print dress and throw in some zebra print wallpaper that I found on the site!

Now I just need to buckle down and think of which type of animal that I want to be, and dress accordingly!