Halloween Under $10: Children Books

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It is getting to be time for Halloween and here in South Alabama, we LOVE it!  From Halloween homeschooling activities to spooky treats to dressing up and attending Haunted houses.  We like to get a bit scared!  Smile

Over the next few days, I will help you have Halloween on a Budget with lots of different low cost Halloween supplies!  Have fun and be sure to let me know if you find something, too. Smile

I will be covering movies, party supplies, cooking/baking goodies, decorations, and more!

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Tips and Advice for Exercising This Summer

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This 14 page ebook has lots of tips for getting your exercise this summer.  From running to how to set up an obstacle course to how to keep your favorite pet from getting the summer sixteen!

You know, those 16 pounds that you put on during the summer?  I would rather lose 16 pounds this summer, but that is just me.  I am taking the advice of The Menu Mom and scheduling some of her tips in over the next 9 weeks. 

What about you?  Are you determined to get some muscles and burn some fat this summer?  The Menu Mom not only tells us how to lose the weight, but she also in true Menu Mom fashion, shows us how to handle some of the menu planning this summer!

Mom Says:  All in all, this is a great book and totally worth the 50 cents it cost me!

This Ebook, Tips and Advice for Exercising this Summer, covers the following:

  • Best Summer Exercises
  • Protecting Yourself from the Sun
  • Dress for Success
  • Avoiding Heat Exhaustion
  • Getting the Kids Involved
  • Exercising with Your Pets
  • and more!

This book is one of 20 for $10 from the "The Menu Mom" Summer Vault. You can get all 20 through June 15th for only 10 dollars. I purchased this set and couldn’t be happier! Over the next couple weeks, I will be reviewing some of the books from the set to give a little about it and my opinions.

**Disclaimer: I bought "The Menu Mom" Summer Vault with my own money – however, this is an affiliate link.  So, if you purchase it I make a bit of money from it.

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How To Find FREE Books for Your Nook

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So, you guys have asked me for free Nook books – well, I don’t have a Barnes and Noble Nook, so I don’t bring you those items.  However, I do understand that YOU have a Nook.  So, I am going to give you advice on the easiest way to find freebies for your Nook… so easy in fact that I wish I had a Nook!  LOL!  Seriously, this little trick does not work on Amazon, only on Barnes and Noble!

Steps to Find Free Nook Books:

1.  Go to BN.com!

2.  Type “0.00” (do not include quotes) in the search box and then Go!

3.  You can sort by popularity, choose categories, and more! 

4.  Have fun downloading all of your free Nook Books!

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A Minute For Me: Learning to Savor Sixty Seconds by Megan McDonough

A Minute For Me: Learning to Savor Sixty Seconds by Megan McDonough

A Minute for Me can be purchased at McDonoughs website

For information about the author click here

 

I like reading self help books.  There are many self help books available to choose from; some good, some not so good.  What makes a self help book good to me is that it is written in a language that I can understand, using everyday words that don’t send me to the medical dictionary (aka Google) to look up.  What also makes a good self help book is one that can be read either all at once or in snippets.

I like choices, so I like being able to read a self help book and arrive at some solutions to my problems rather quickly; like in one chapter.  McDonough offers solutions very quickly, in under 60 seconds.  Sixty seconds is fast, lightening fast; and in my world (probably yours too) fast is better, right?  Want to learn some breathing techniques fast? McDonough teachers you in one chapter how to focus your breathing to begin relaxing.  To be sure, McDonough lays out the lessons in sixty seconds, but to attain any kind of benefit, the exercises following the lessons need to be practiced.

By reading the author’s short stories culled from her own life’s lessons, you lean that everyone has room to explore, learn, and grow toward living peacefully.  Sixty seconds is really all you need a day to read a chapter that could potentially change your life.

If you have a bit more time available, then you can enjoy reading A Minute for Me in longer portions.  Reading several chapters will guide you through multiple exercises, each able to stand alone in their importance but yet combining as a whole to make you a more relaxed and more mindful person.

If you’re interested in studying yoga or mindfulness but not sure where to start, start with A Minute for Me.  Surely you have 60 seconds to give to yourself?  I didn’t think I had that much time, but I discovered I did; and that I needed it!

I give this book 4 smiles!

Pam M

 

*DISCLAIMER: I was sent items by the publisher to help facilitate my review. Any opinions stated are strictly my own.*

 

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BOOK REVIEW: Spencer Seidel’s Lovesick

I was interested in reading this book because Valentine’s Day is coming soon and I thought it would be a refreshing approach to look at the twisted side of love and romance.

Lovesick by Spence Seidel

http://www.spencerseidel.com/

Published by: PUBLISHINGWORKS, INC.

Genre: FICTION, MYSTERY

Format: Trade,

Length: 374 pages

Release Date: JUNE 2012

Love.  Teenagers. Love triangle.  Perfect combination for a crime.

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I must get a few things off my chest before I continue with the review. Overall, I quite enjoyed the book.  More on that later.  What bothered me about the book were the details.  Occasionally words were omitted or a wayward ‘a’ or ’an’ was inserted.  Those were mild irritants.  What bothered me was the lack of specific details that I felt were missing or not explored deeply enough.  For example, it is quite common for young girls to write in diaries.  I find it implausible, however, that a girl would carry it around in her backpack, especially if it contained such incriminating information as Wendy’s did.  I do, believe, more appropriately, that Wendy would have kept her secret diaries hidden and locked up at home, safe from prying eyes.

Other details that bothered me were specific to Lisa. A woman comes home, finds her apartment ransacked and then walks through the apartment looking for the intruder? Unbelievable.  Also, unbelievable is that the author made no mention of specific details involving her clothes, other than to say she couldn’t jump out of a window in low heels.  There is no such thing as low heels.  There are flats, high heels, kitten heels, platforms, boots, etc. We don’t say “low heels”.  I think a book aimed at women needs to pay more attention to these kinds of details.

Now that I’ve made my peace, I enjoyed the book.  The characters were believable and easy to identify with.  Characterization is important to me as a reader and the author delivered sequences that I felt were true of each character (short of Lisa coming home to her apartment, as stated above).  I liked the quick pacing of the story and that the story was not so convoluted that the plot was difficult to figure out.  I was pleased with myself when I figured things out and Seidel did not disappoint by adding confusing twists.  I also liked that the story wrapped up logically without the standard fairy tale ending.  I do wish, however, that more would have been developed explaining Paul’s head injury and his behavior when he was found by the police.

If you are the squeamish type then this is not for you.  Good cop fiction!

This story earns 4 smiles!

 

Pam M.

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