Category: books

Right now, Red Robin is looking for gourmet burger recipes from kids for its 5^th annual Kids’ Cook-Off. Kids ages six to 12 are encouraged to create and submit their gourmet burger recipe entries online at www.RedRobinKidsCookOff.com until Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, for the chance to be named the next Kids’ Cook-Off grand-prize winner.

Ten finalists will receive

Tuesday morning, while I was waiting for the plumber to arrive to cut up our garage ceiling which has a leak in it (totally other story, which I’ll tell some time), I decided to pass the time with the new book I received Puzzle Baron’s Logic Puzzles.  I’ve never been terribly good at logic puzzles, but tend to do better with word puzzles than number ones like Sudoku (have I mentioned I have numerphobia?!!).  In any event, I started with the first puzzle and after erasing it…twice…gave up but not in defeat, I just decided to test my brain on the next one.  And after some time (I didn’t check the clock, as I could have been doing laundry or cleaning my kitchen…), I came out victorious, and solved it!  What a rush.

So now that I have achieved the

Talk about making you hungry, huh?

I love comfort food.  There’s something about the smells and tastes of the foods you had as a kid that makes a house feel like home.

The new Gooseberry Patch Keepsake Cookbook: Treasured Heirloom Recipes from Gooseberry Patch Family & Friends consists of recipes of both traditional classics and new favorites.  There are also some very different recipes in it, that have some

BraveMouse Books presents an original  Recipe for adventure!

Ingredients:

• 1 mouse named Benjamin
• 1 small elephant named Bumper

Combine with:

• The mysterious disappearance of Benjamin’s mother

Toss In:

I’m cleaning off my book shelf getting ready to fill it with new reading materials for the upcoming winter!  I know I have some avid readers that follow my blog, so I figure I’d let you all have a shot at winning some of them.

Today I have a Reader’s Digest Select Edition to giveaway.  If you don’t know about Select Editions, let me tell you about them.  It’s a great way to be introduced to new authors because of their format.  Four

101 inspirational stories of Energy, Endurance and Endorphins ~ Runners.

I am not a runner.  I’m not even a jogger.  You might find me walking at a brisk pace on occasion, but even then, I’d never be confused with an ultramarathoner.  Amazingly enough, I was still inspired by the stories within Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners. 

The 101 stories inside its pages tell the stories of

Not really a place most people would go to on their honeymoon, but you know we’re geeks, so Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum was on our list of things to see and do in Orlando on ours.  I have great memories of the strange, weird, fantastic and unbelievable attractions they house in that upside down building.

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! newest book is ‘Enter If You Dare‘ highlighting strange stories from around the globe.

A coffee table book that is sure to draw attention, it’s filled with a mind-boggling array of incredible and bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features.

New showcases in this book include

My family and I are self professed geeks.  The “why” and the “how” behind the object or activity needs to be discovered.  So a book entitled, Cooking For Geeks is right up our alley.  Jeff Potter, speaks geek in this science book about the kitchen and your food, and not only do you not have to go back to school to learn and be surprised on nearly every page, it includes many tasty recipes too.

The book features seven chapters (with my opinion of chapter highlights below):

Summer is over and school’s back in, but that doesn’t mean your kids can’t continue having fun, and do some learning too.  National Geographic Kids has three new fun and educational books for your children; National Geographic Kids Almanac 2011, The Big Book of Fun and Weird But True!

Your kids will love the interesting facts inside these books, and they’ll be itching to

The Women in Jesus’ Life is a good bible study book full of lessons for a group of women to study together (or it can also be used as a study guide on your own).  Author Mindy Ferguson encourages the participants to think about the women in Jesus’ life as real women.  In reality, we either are like these women or know someone like them.

Women have an important role in God’s kingdom here on Earth, and God has ‘wired’ them differently then men for a reason.  Culture during Jesus’ time for women was