Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite fiction authors. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is a work of non-fiction. It tells the story of an experimental year as Kingsolver and her family became locavores. They grew and harvested most of their own food, and bought local organic food for the majority of the rest. It’s not fiction, but it almost reads like a novel. I became very interested in the happenings around the farm, wondering about the crops, how their youngest daughters egg business would do, and anxious to see if the turkeys would hatch their eggs. … Continue reading

Buy Two Paperbacks, Get Third Free, at Barnes & Noble

Are you an avid reader? Do you find yourself in need of something to read right now? If so, then you should check out the sale at Barnes & Noble. Buy two paperback books, and get the third one free, for a limited time. This is just one of many sales that Barnes & Noble has going on right now. Barnes & Noble has a ton of sales, all year long. Most, if not all, of their sales are accessible online from their website as well as in their actual stores. The advantage of shopping online is that you don’t … Continue reading

Week in Review – Media

What a week we had in Media Reviews! Keep reading for a great new interview series on Families.com bloggers, children’s picture books, podcasts, parenting advice, and lots of great fiction! Lauri shared a classic children’s story, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Read about the unique illustrations in this fun story that won the Caldecott award in 1963. Tristi interviewed Camille Marchetta on Writing for Television. Read what she has to say on co-authoring and the differences in script writing and writing novels. In Read Books for Charity!, Tristi explains a new promotion from Harlequin books. If you love … Continue reading