So last week I was shelving in New Releases and was thrilled to discover that J. A.  ("Joe") Konrath has written another Lt. Jacqueline ("Jack") Daniels mystery!   While I never did get around to going back and checking out the second and third volumes (Rusty Nail and Bloody Mary), I am inclined to go out [...]

If you use Blogger.com to publish your blog, or Google’s document and spreadsheet programs, or Google Maps, or Google’s Picasa image editing software or even just Google search and have ever thought to yourself  ‘there really ought to be a manual for this’,   now there is.    This new 2008 release by Donna L Baker is [...]

Happy Friday!   It’s time once again for me to give some link love to my top Entrecard droppers.   As I did once before,   today I am simply posting the cover images of five books that I recently brought home from the library (and in once instance even read it cover to cover) but decided Not [...]

Happy Thursday!   Time for another Easy Picture Books roundup and I have three cute ones today.   First author Judy Fichler and illustrator Kevin O’Malley have teamed up to produce Miss Malarkey Doesn’t Live In Room 10.   A young first grade boy is convinced his teacher, Miss Malarkey, lives at school right there in her [...]

Today’s cookbook roundup is all "C’s"!   First up,  Wendy Rahamut,  a resident of the island Trinidad in the south Caribbean, has written Modern Caribbean Cuisine in which she includes both traditional island recipes and her takes on many contemporary dishes that utilize local Caribbean ingredients.    The results are somewhat mixed.  Some recipes,  like the cover [...]