Student's Vegetarian Cookbook for Dummies

Student's Vegetarian Cookbook for Dummies

Since students now a day think that vegetarianism means meals should consist of fruit based candies and energy drinks, I thought it was about time I armed myself with a few facts and therefore be prepared for the next uninformed teen that I meet.

Student’s Vegetarian Cookbook for Dummies is very informative with easy to understand chapters and icons, the reader is embarking on a learning experience that makes sense and will lead you down the right path for proper nutrition.

Though the information about how many grams of this and how many servings of that are fine, unless you are a diehard student, you aren’t going to pay attention, but for us mom types, it is fascinating stuff you don’t always commit to memory. Students want this spelled out in quick easy to follow steps, so will probably skip over the knowledge part and head right for the recipes. This is what I did on my first reading.

The recipes look very good, they are simple easy to make meals and snacks using easy to find ingredients and with the use of minimal kitchen appliances and tools there is no excuse for not eating a healthy vegetarian meal.

With this book, there is no excuse for not getting it right. Just pop it open then next time that you think that gummy bears and a monster will keep you on the vegetarian path.

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Dead and Berried

Karen MacInerney

Chapter 1

I had gotten used to nighttime noises.

When you live in a 150-year-old inn, you do. Guests bang around in their rooms, the pipes thump and clank in the walls, and the wind sometimes moans as it slithers past the eaves.

But I’d never heard anything from the attic before.

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Developers have returned to Cranberry Island. This time, they're planning to wipe out a natural cranberry bog, along with the island's namesake berries, to build a luxury subdivision. Natalie Barnes isn't sweet on the idea of commercial interests souring their cozy oasis, but the single innkeeper has other problems on her plate: a withering relationship with her best friend Charlene, the sudden appearance of her ex-fiancé with a tempting proposal, and eerie bumps in the night suggesting the Gray Whale Inn is haunted. Worst of all, there's a killer on the loose, picking off people like ripe fruit.

Breaking Silence

Breaking Silence

Linda Castillo

There seems to be a growing trend in reading the last page or three of a book so you know what is coming and which characters to root for. Well, do not do it with this book!! Linda Castillo has a knack for leading the reader down a fascinating trail and whacking you upside the head with a zinger of an ending, so if you want to cheat and not take the time with this book, you will be disappointing yourself and not getting the full intensity of Ms Castillo’s writing.

Once again, we are back in Painters Mill where there has been a recent breakout of hate crimes again the Amish. Chief Kate Burkholder is incensed. Who would want to do these terrible acts on the gentle Amish people? When in the midst of investigating one crime, she is called to the seemingly accidental deaths at the Slaybaugh farm. Soddy and Rachael have had problems in the past with manure maintenance so when they and Mr. Slaybaugh’s brother are found dead, apparently overcome by methane gas, Kate’s heart goes out to the four-orphaned children.

Soon things are not adding up and Kate has a couple of questions for the family and the close-knit community. It is not easy being a female chief of police when the residents close ranks and continually reminds you that you are no longer a member of their community, but Kate is determined to see this unfortunate situation to the end. No matter which end it leads her to.

Ms Castillo mesmerizes me with her books. I eagerly await the next arrival and I am drawn in from the first paragraph. Of course with any series, I suggest that you start at the beginning to get the full picture of who Kate Burkholder is and how she interrelates with her staff and agent John Tomasetti. Whereas the investigations can stand on their own, the interpersonal relations are developed with each book and you get a fuller richer picture of Painters Mill and their police department.

My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir

My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir
Noelle Hancock

I love books called memoirs because there really does not need to be much fact in them. They can be told in a “this is my story and I’m sticking to it" approach which I think is useful with Noelle Hancock’s memoir concerning her “Year of Fear”.

Noelle finds herself facing down her 30th birthday and has found that she has closed herself off. Her job as a blogger on an entertainment platform has left her more concerned about other people’s lives then where she is going with her own.

One day she gets a call that her job is no longer and she sees a quote on a chalkboard in a coffee shop:

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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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That sets the whole year in motion.

That is where my problem with this mentality began. A single twenty-nine year old woman with no children, a college degree, money in the bank and she needs to find herself. Really? Where has she been? Well, apparently it gets her on her analyst’s couch trying to figure out where to go from here.

What does any self-indulged woman do – shark diving, fighter pilot lessons, tap dancing stand-up comedy, running naked down a hall, trapeze artist, and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. Well of course, why didn’t we all think of that?

I can appreciate her trying to shake things up a bit, but for goodness sakes, she is only in her woman infancy. What is she going to do when she is staring down fifty? Indy Drive? Lead Ballerina? Astronaut? Neurosurgeon?

Ms Hancock takes the reader along as she tries to face down her fears, including her addiction to sleeping pills. There are some very funny parts, not sure if they really happened that way or were embellished for the sake of a good story, but the readers do find themselves wondering what this woman will do next.

Using Eleanor Roosevelt as a mentor is a unique way of looking at your situation, just think that I should have read Eleanor’s books instead of this one. I can see how it would be inspiring for some, but for those of us that are way past our 30th birthday, will be annoyed by Noelle’s constant need for acceptance and wondering if she will ever be good enough. Eleanor lived it and made it through -maybe that just takes time and not fear inducing feats - and what older women need as an inspiration.

I rarely comment on editing in a book, don’t know if my grammar skills are good enough to point out the faults of others, but there are a couple tense problems that stop a reader in their flow. Also, just need to let you know that on page 260 (hardback) you do not urinate out of that part of your body.

Overall, would I recommend this book? Possibly, but not for anyone over 30. This book was not been written for my demographic. If you are under 30, you will love it. If you are on the downhill side of that – I recommend the works of the master herself – Ms. Eleanor Roosevelt.