My Life in France: Julia Child

I finished reading this book this morning, and I absolutely loved it.  I have always respected and admired Julia Child.  I remember watching The French Chef on PBS when I was a little girl.  

I found this book to be completely engaging from the the first page to the last. Reading about Julia Child's experiences living in France during the 40's and 50's pulled me right into the story.  It was enchanting and Julia is the type of person I would want to travel with.  Julia was so very opened to adventure and embracing life. Embracing life with love, laughter and adventure and joy is the only way to live as far as I am concerned.

Julia in France

 

Julia was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams on August 15, 1912 in Pasadena, California.  Julia grew up in a household where not even her mother cooked.  The family had someone to come in and cook meals for them.  Julia's father John was a staunch republican and Julia later on became a staunch democrat.    Julia had no interest at all in cooking until she married Paul Child whom she met in Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka).  
  

Julia in class at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France.

 

Julia found that she loved cooking and being in the kitchen.  Cooking became an obsession for Julia.  She loved everything about it including the preparation to begin cooking  I admire Julia's love of cooking and being in the kitchen.   I enjoy cooking too and love my kitchen, so I can totally relate to Julia's insistence on creating the perfect professional kitchen to cook in for herself.  I loved reading about her copper pots, heavy mortar and pestle and other kitchen gadgets. I am crazy about all that stuff too.   I also loved reading about all the fresh ingredients that were used in the cooking of all the food.  
 

 I knew that Julia was tall, but I had no idea that she was 6'2" tall. 

I am so happy to know that Julia had a very loving and supportive husband in Paul Child.

My Life in France, is also a travel essay.  Julia describes Paris the way it was in the 1940's and 1950's and does and excellent job of it too.  Julia made me wish that I could have experienced Paris back then too.  
 

 Stairs in Monmartre

In the book Julia also tells the story of how she came to be one of the authors of Mastering The Art of French Cooking for American audiences.  

This is a photo  of Julia Child's kitchen when she relocated back to the United States.
 

Julia Carolyn McWilliams Child (1912 - 2004).  Julia was 91 years old when she left us.

5 Stars

The Infinite Way

After spending many years in search of the truth of existence, Joel S. Goldsmith wrote The Infinite Way.  If you want to know what exactly Joel Goldsmith taught this is the book to start with.  It contains all of the basics of Mr. Goldsmith's spiritual teaching.  It is important to get a copy of the original version that Joel Goldsmith wrote in 1947.  From what I read, later publications contain modifications by the publisher.  The Infinite Way is about man's search for God that literally is within us and IS us.  It contains a lot of metaphysical principles written in a clear modern way so that everyone can easily understand it.   I thouroughly enjoyed reading The Infinite Way and it will remain a part of my permanent library.

 5 Stars

My Lady Gisborne

My Lady Gisborne, A Love Story is a follow up book to The Tempest by the same author.  In The Tempest, Guy of Gisborne and his wife Cassia are deeply in love and they have four children together.  In My Lady Gisborne, several years have passed and their children are much older.  Guy and Cassia have been married for 18 years.  After so many years of marriage Guy and Cassia are still deeply in love and their family is a very close knit one.  

The storyline revolves around their daughter Evelyn Elizabeth Gisborne.  When Evelyn was  a baby Guy promised her hand in marriage to the son of a dear friend and fellow nobleman, Basil Jean-Carre.  When Evelyn is fifteen years old she finally meets her betrothed Simon Jean-Carre'.  It had been arranged that Evelyn would marry Simon the day after her sixteenth birthday.  Now remember this is a medieval love story so marrying at 16 is common.    Evelyn is now 15 years old and it is time for her to meet the 23 year old young man that she is betrothed to.  However, Evelyn also meets Rene' Jean-Bastien who is a nobleman turned rogue.  Which man will Evelyn choose to marry?

I did not care for Rene' from the start.  I thought he was immature, way too arrogant and selfish.  I was not happy when Evelyn started to fall for Rene'.  Simon Jean-Carre' is a handsome and decent man of noble birth, but he is a bit cold and believes that his duty to the Crown is most important in life.  Having a wife was good but he only saw that as a backdrop to life.  Being under the same roof with the Gisbornes changes all of that.  Simon truly falls in love with Evelyn and he wants to have a close knit family of his own like the Gisborne's.

Even though I did not care for the Rene' Jean-Bastien character, it did add immensely to the storyline.  Rene's feelings for Evelyn forced Simon to realize the depth of his love for her.  For a man who was not used to expressing the tenderness of love in words and emotions the threat of Rene' forced Simon 's raw feelings to surface and remain there.

I cherished Guy of Gisborne even more in this book.  Guy's love for his children is so strong.  The day that Guy had to give Evelyn away in marriage touched me deeply.  I could feel Guy's emotions as he had to let go of his daughter to a life of her own.  

I really enjoyed this book by Charlotte Hawkins so much.  It was a great continuation of a wonderful love story.  I will forever love the Gisborne's through this author's books.

4 Stars     

   

Italy: Rediscovering the Art of Vacation

I just finished reading this book and it did take me longer to read it than I thought it would.  I enjoyed it very much but here and there it was just a tad bit tedious.  This book is about Chris Brady taking a month long vacation-sabbatical with his family.  The Brady's head for Italy which is a country that Chris has been to before and drawn to.  I love Chris's sense of adventure.  When I get married that is the type of husband I want to end up with.  I don't see taking a month out of one's life to spend in Italy or anyplace you ever dreamed of impossible.  You can make anything happen if you have the burning desire to do so.  If you think something is not possible then you don't want it badly enough. 

Chris, his wife Terri and four children head for the Amalfi coast first.  The Brady's first rent a villa apartment that overlooks the Mediterranean sea.  Their adventures in that part of the region pulls me in and keeps me reading. After a week or so the family heads to another region of Italy and rent a villa called La Contea in Tuscany.  I found their adventures there equally interesting and I want to visit Italy now more than ever.  Throughout the entire book Chris spices it up with humor.  Having a sense of humor is another great personality trait to have in a spouse. 

What sticks out clearly is the love and closeness of this family and I think that added to the wonderful time they had in Italy.  I admire the Brady family.  Terri is a very supportive wife.  Another person who reviewed this book saw that as a weakness and wrote that Terri seems like a person who just goes along with everything her husband wants.  There is a difference between being a doormat and being supportive.  Terri is loving and supportive.  How wonderful it would be if we all had spouses who loves us enough to want our dreams to come true and participates in it.  Terri, who loves to cook, goes off on her own in Italy one day to take a cooking class.  I enjoyed reading about that.  Chris Brady is a father who takes part in his children's raising and does not leave it all to mommy, even though Terri does most of it being a full time mom.  Chris clearly loves and appreciates his wife and children.  He never takes any of them for granted and the entire family has a strong spiritual base.

The Bradys visit so many historical places that most people just read about in books.  Chris made them all come alive ofr me and I would stop to Google many of them.  I cannot wait to visit the Vatican, the Temple of Neptune, etc.

Chris Brady clearly spent thousands of dollars on this trip and I would have liked to know how much it cost him.   The books contains lots of advice and tidbits that are good to know.

4 Stars

Believe In Love

I just finished reading this book on my Kindle and enjoyed it very much.  It is a contemporary romance story that is a fast read.  The storyline kept me engaged and moved along at a good steady pace.  The hero is Carson Waverly, a very handsome and wealthy architect and owner of luxury hotels in Hawaii called The Waverly.  Carson is a womanizer who because of his past does not believe in love; at least not for himself.  Carson has dated many beautiful women, including international models, but none were able to keep his interest until he meets Molly Carson, a very pretty but dowdy, naive and inexperienced nurse from Idaho.

Molly travels to Kauai to sprinkle the ashes of her best friend Roger into the ocean in Hawaii.  It is one Roger's last requests before he passed away.  On Molly's first day in Kauai she meets Carson Waverly and from there this beautiful love story unfolds.

There is an element of intrigue that gives the storyline the right amount of lift.  

The only thing that I raised my eyebrows a little about the story is that Carson Waverly was deliberately planning to sleep with someone (Molly) who is a paying customer in his hotel.  That element just did not seem professional to me.  Carson Waverly is obviously a very smart man who takes his business seriously so that part did not match his personality, even though he was a self proclaimed womanizer.

This book also contains intimate acts of making love between Molly and Carson so if you are offended my that this is a warning for you.  Yes, I was blushing.  

4 Stars  

 

The Tempest A Guy of Gisborne Story

 A Richard Armitage fan on Pinterest highly recommended that I read this book The Tempest A Guy of Gisborne Story.  Since the Kindle version is only $3.99 I decided to pucrhase it.   I started reading it the next day and I literally could not put the book down until I finished the story.  It is written by Charlotte Hawkins.

I really enjoyed reading this book.  A couple of people on amazin hated it but I don't get that at all.  I found the storyline to be very engaging.  It was nice to see Guy of Gisborne find the true love of his life and I was glad that it was not Marian.  It was also nice to see Guy's transformation from a man who was wicked and cruel to a man who deep down had a good decent side to him and was really ashamed of the way he acted and the lives he ruined.  

Cassia DeWarren is the woman who loved Guy of Gisborne and was able to see through him to his soul.  She saw that deep down there was goodness in him and with her love she brought that aspect of Guy to the fore.   At the start of the story Guy is still obssessed with Marian, but after he is injured and left unconscious, his body was found by Cassia and her father Robert DeWarren.  Cassia and Robert managed to bring Guy's body to the house and from there worked on his injuries which were very serious and life threatening.  As Cassia's unwilling patient Guy gets to know Cassia who is of peasant birth.  Being in constant close proximity with Cassia, Guy is forced to get to know her better.  The more Guy gets to know Cassia the more he is drawn to her as a person.  Guy is also physically drawn to Cassia.  She is a dark beauty just as Marian was but instead of having green eyes Cassia's eyes are dark.

 In the BBC Robin Hood series Richard Armitage plays Guy of Gisborne and you can easily recognize Richard's protrayal of the character in this book.

 

 

Over time Guy of Gisborne realizes that he is in love with Cassia and that his love for Marian paled in comparison.  Cassia inspires Guy to want to be a better person and he is ashamed of the misery and heartbreak that he caused in the past.          

Guy of Gisborne is extremely amorous in this book and it does contain detailed lovemaking scenes.  Some people do find this sort of thing uncomfortable, but I don't as long as it is written tastefully and is connected to love and not base lust.  For being such a formerly cruel person Guy is a very sweet, tender, considerate and passionate lover who has no problems expressing himself in the bedroom.   I was blushing as I was reading the love scenes.

 

If I am not mistaken the author of this book based Guy of Gisborne on Richard Armitage's portrayal of him in Robin Hood.  In the book Guy had the same way of smirking that Richard brought to the character.  They have the same brooding and arrogant temperament.    

 

 



Thank you Richard Armitage and thank you Charlotte Hawkins for a great book.  Click HERE to go the the author's blog.  This is the first and only book I have read by her.  Miss Hawkins does wrote "adult" books.  I enjoyed this one and was not offended but I am not sure about the others.  Some people may consider her books soft porn which I am not into either.  I may give another one of her books a try since I enjoyed this one so much.     

5 Stars

Captain Wentworth's Diary

I probably would not have read this book without reading about its recommendation in the Jane Austen group on Goodreads.  I am so glad I read it.  I loved it!  It is so nice to read Persuasion completely through Captain Wentworth's eyes.  The author Amanda Grange did a wonderful job.

Captain Wentworth is so mature and only wants to marry for love.  The Captain's love for Anne is constant.  Regardless of his pride and doubts the Captain continues to move forward to regain the love of his life.  I love Captain Wentworth more than Mr. Darcy.  This book is a very easy read too because it is written in diary style.

5 Stars     

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magicians Nephew

This book in the Chronicles of Narnia is actually the first one even though it was written and published after The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe.  I enjoyed reading this book immensely.  It was great reading about how Narnia was created.  There are biblical references which added extra specialness to the book.  The book also appealed to the little girl in me who enjoys books of fantasy.  This book is completely enchanting.

Aslan is such a beautiful Lion inside and out.

5 Stars

Harry Potter

I really don't feel like reviewing each individual Harry Potter book so I am reviewing them all at the same time.  Originally I had no desire what so ever to read these books.  After a few years when the movies started coming out I decided to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone just to find out what the heck all the excitement is all about.  I loved it so much and could not put it down.  I read every book straight away until I was done with them all.

As far as I am concerned J.K. Rowling is a genius.  There is so much adventure and magical things going in all of the books which kept me engaged throughout.  I love Harry Potter and his friends.  There are also some spiritual messages in these books that will go right over your head if you are not paying attention.

J.K. Rowling has gotten much criticism for writing these books and my personal opinion on that is those people really need to get a life.  I thank the author for her writing and she deserves every bit of recognition.

5 Stars  

Life and Teaching of The Masters of The Far East

I first read these six volume set of books in the very late 1980's and they altered the course of my life.  These books helped to confirm what I already knew within me to be true.  When I first read these books it was a five volume set.  Later on a sixth volume was added and now I have a second set with the sixth volume included.

Baird T. Spalding was a part of an independent research expedition that went to India in the early part of the 20th century.  The expedition lasted three and a half years.  These books are the journals that Mr. Spalding wrote and kept detailing the events that took place during the expedition.  Mr. Spalding came in direct contact with the Masters including one that the world knows as Jesus the Christ.

Once a seeker of truth really absorbs and understands what the Masters in these books are conveying there is no turning back to the old religious belief systems.  Your life is forever changed.  However, it does take more than reading these books.  You have to put into active practice what the Masters teach in order to be truly free.

These books are pretty hard to swallow for those who are not ready for these messages.  Most people cannot even wrap their brains around the notion of physical immortality.  There are some people online whose only concern is discrediting these books and Mr. Spalding.  So much so that one person has a website solely dedicated to the task of debunking the Mr. Spalding's claims and these books.  It is really too late for that.  Life and teaching of The Masters of The Far East has been a best selling book for decades.  Truth cannot be contained and the Age of Enlightenment is at hand.

 I give my love and gratitude to Baird T. Spalding for his work on this earth and contribution to the awakening of humanity.

5 Stars

       

The Secret Garden

 

Mary Lenox is a little girl that was born in India to very wealthy and self absorbed parents.  Neither of her parents bother with her.  The servants are the only people who come in constant contact with Mary and placate her for the most part.  Mary is a spoiled brat with a very negative disposition.

When Mary is ten years old her parents pass away during an outbreak of cholera.  Several of the servants also pass away, and Mary is sent away to live with her uncle in Yorkshire, England.  Mary's uncle Archibald Green lives in a huge house along the moors.  The gray moors sort of represents the negative disposition of Mary.

While living in Yorkshire Mary in tended to by a very pleasant maidservant named Martha Sowerby.  Martha regals Mary with stories about the late Mrs Craven and her private garden.  While playing Mary finds the key to the secret garden with the help of a bird.  Being in the garden transforms her life and the life of her cousin Colin whom she finds living in  a hidden bedroom in the house.   Colin is not allowed out of the room .  Colin also cannot walk and his believed to be crippled.  Mary decides to take care of him and eventually starts wheeling him out to the secret garden every day where he finds strength and begins to believe that he is not crippled.

 The Secret Garden to me is a very spiritually enlightening book.  The story demonstrates the power that we all have within us to heal ourselves.

5 Stars

   

On Rue Tatin

I love reading books about people who relocate abroad.  It feds my own desire to do the same and that is why I loved reading this book so much.  Besides the boring chapter on purchasing a stove, I enjoyed every bit of this book.

Susan Herman Loomis is a journalost and food expert who relocates to France with her husband and son from the United States.  They purchase a 15th century former convent in Louviers, France.  The house sits in the shadows of The Gothic Church of Notre-Dame de Louviers.

This book centers around food, the adventures of restoring a 15th century home and the trials of immersing into French culture.  Susan and her husband welcome a daughter Fiona shortly after moving to France.  Like all travel essays written by people who love food I came away with an even more appreciation for eating well and using only the best ingredients.

I would love to experience one of Susan's classes in France which are held in her 15th century home.

4 Stars      

Susan's kitchen

 Stone wine cellar underneath Susan's home.  Wow!

 Susan Herman Loomis.

On Rue Tatin

A Heart For Milton

A Heart for Milton is a sequel to North and South.  I enjoyed this ebook very much.  I am overjoyed that John Thornton and Margaret Hale got married and had children of their own.  There are other sequels to North and South, however, this is my favorite one.

Some people who read this book were upset that the author includes loves scenes, but I thought it was a great addition to the story.  There is nothing dirty about a married couple truly in love and making love with one another.  I was delighted to see that Mr. Thornton could be so passionate underneath his broody exterior.  John's love for Margaret and physical attraction to her was beautifully and tastefully written.

As I read this book I was just as happy and excited as John Thornton was as he was preparing to travel to London for his marriage to Margaret.  After two years of believing that another man had Margaret's heart John could barely believe how his life had suddenly changed.  I felt John's excitement and shared his happiness.       

 It was wonderful to read about John and Margaret's legacy living on through their descendants..  I was very teary eyed by the end of this book.

Great job Trudy Brasure.

5 Star Rating

 Author Trudy Brasure.  Be sure to visit Trudy's website.
 A Heart for Milton 


 

Paris My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light

Last week I purchased the Kindle edition of the book Paris My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate).  The author is Amy Thomas.  Miss Thomas is an American Francophile.  Her love of France began when she went to Paris for three months as a college student.  From that time on Amy Thomas dreamed of living in France.  It was an obsession that was manifested into reality because of her strong desire for it.  At age thirty six Amy accepted a job offer with the company she worked with that entailed moving to France and working for Louis Vuitton.  

Amy Thomas spent two years living and working in France.  Paris My Sweet chronicles Amy's first year of living in the City of Light.  I read much criticism about this book in Amazon.com, but I found it to be a delightful read.  Some reviewers said the author talked too much about herself.  Well, what does one think writing about your year living abroad is about?  Is it not about you and your own personal experiences?  I never perceived the book as being self indulgent at all.  I wanted to read about the author's experiences as a single woman who moved to France by herself at age 36.  That is exactly what the book is about and what you will get.  So what is the problem?  Amy Thomas did something that I have dreamed of doing myself for years but have not done....yet

The author has an extreme love of sweets, especially dark chocolate.  Miss Thomas writes a lot about chocolate, pastries, breads, donuts, truffles, you name it and Paris My Sweet has it.  There is so much talk of sweets that I started to wonder if the author had to visit the dentist more than most people.  I also wondered if she was fat from eating so much sweets and searched online for what she looks like.  Miss Thomas is quite thin.

I loved that the book includes the names, addresses and sometimes the websites of all the places that Amy Thomas frequented in Paris and in New York City to but sweets, breads and pastries.  As far as I am concerned it is a valuable listing....(smile)  

The book ends at the author's first full year in France.  I now wonder what her second year was like.  After living in Paris for two years would she make it her permanent home?  Did she ever find the love of her life either in France or America?  Amy Thomas, I really would love an update.

When I decide to move abroad I would live in either France, England or Italy.  I have not decided yet which of those countries to choose from.  

I offer my love and thanks to Amy Thomas for sharing with us all her experiences living in France . 

Here are the links to Amy Thomas's blogs:  Sweet Freaks and God, I Love Paris
  

Goodreads

Two weeks ago I found a social network for people who love to read.  It is called goodreads and apparently it has been around for a few years already.  I never heard of it until just two weeks ago.  I love it!!!  I so much love to read that I can call it an addiction at this point.  Goodreads is for people like me who enjoy reading immensely.  When anyone tells me that they don't like to read I cannot comprehend that.  Not liking to read is a foreign concept to me that I don't even want to understand.  Reading enriches my life.  

Click the goodreads button to join goodreads.

There are many things about goodreads that I love.  First off you are in the online company of other people who feel as you do about reading.  It doesn't make any sense to join if you are not a book lover.   Secondly, you get to interact with some of the authors of the books you are reading.  Many self published authors are on goodreads.  Thirdly, you can rate, review and recommend the books you read.  Fourthly, goodreads is great for keeping track of books that you read.  There is a really fun goodreads challenge that you can enter into each year.  Another great benefit is that you can join any number of groups focusing on genre's, authors, etc.  I have met some wonderful people already just by joining groups.

If you are a book lover and not already a member of goodreads I invite you to check it out.      

   

Matthew MacFadyen Reads Pride & Prejudice

OMG!  I love this You Tube video of Matthew MacFadyen reading the proposal scene of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice.  I give great thanks to the You Tube person (idling101) who put this video together.

I love this video

The Vow by Rebecca Winters

As you all should know by now I love downloading ebooks onto my Kindle.  I am on a romance novel high right now.  Actually, I have been on this romantic books high since I was 19 years old and read my first romance novel.  It is called Shanna written by the late Kathleen E. Woodiwiss.  I had no idea that it had descriptions of intimate love scenes in it.   I was so naive and quite the virgin.  As I was reading Shanna I was shocked and thrilled at the same time.  The hero, Roark Beauchamp was everything I wanted in a husband/hero too.  That one book introduced me to the world of romance novels.  I have been a fan ever since.

Two nights ago I finished reading The Vow by Rebecca Winters.  It is truly one of the most beautiful love stories that I ever read.  I probably say that about all the romance novels that I love a lot.  This book, The Vow, is not the same one that a movie with the same name is based on.  This book is different.

The main characters Nick and Stefanie Marsden met in High School in 1973.  They were 17 years old.   Nick and Stefanie loved each other from the deepest parts of their soul and knew it upon meeting. If only this would happen to everyone. I love how the story unfolds by the reading of Stefanie's journal. What a great way to tell a story. I was jubilant when Dries filled in some of the missing pieces about Nick for Stefanie while she was waiting. This book also made me want to read the books that Nick and Stefanie loved and read. The ending was nice although a little abrupt. This is the first book I read by this author and will be reading more.

 

I can easily picture this book as a movie starring my favorite British actor Richard Armitage as Nick Marsden.

    

Miss Moseley The Matchmaker

I just finished reading this morning a Kindle edition regency romance book.  It is called Miss Moseley The Matchmaker by Caylen McQueen.  This is the first book that I ever read by this author and I really enjoyed it.  It was an easy read and just the right length.  It did not go on endlessly with misunderstandings chapter after chapter until you are ready to scream.  I guess it is more like a novella. 

I won't give away what happened, but I was surprised by the ending.  At first I was not sure I liked who Miss Moseley was heading to, but then as I kept reading I knew it was serendipity.  I was so deeply moved by Julian's letter.  OMG what a man!  The Kindle edition of this novella is only .99 cents    I would love to see this as a movie starring British actor Richard Armitage as Julian Crawford and Daniela Denby-Ashe as Miss Moseley.

 

Cheryl Bolen Regency Romances

I recently purchased some regency romance ebooks by Cheryl Bolen that I downloaded onto my kindle.  I love regency romances.  They may come off as a bit over the top to some people because of the restrictive era that these books take place in, but I still enjoy reading them.  As a woman of color I cannot really identify with the somewhat limited standard of beauty of the heriones in these books, but like I said, I do enjoy reading them anyway.  The hero is always dashing and handsome.  Even if he was a rogue at one time, deep down he really is a nice guy who knows how to give his heart and all his love completely to the heroine.  From the moment the hero meets the heroine he never has eyes for anyone else.  What woman would not love that???  Some people may think that is unrealistic, but I do not.  I believe that it is entirely possible for two people to meet and connect soul to soul immediately.  If it has happened to YOU, I would love to hear about it.  I know this will happen to ME....hee hee haa haa.  Seriously, I really do believe that.  :-)  Do not try to invalidate my dreams because I won't listen to you.

The first one I read is His Lordships Vow.  The second on The Bride Wore Blue and third one is With His Ring.  They are really inexpensive to download onto your kindle if you have one.  His Lordships Vow cost me.99 cents.  The other two I paid $3.49.  A lot of the regency romance ebooks are very low priced.  

Cheryl Bolen is a good writer, but the editing is not "tight" in these books.  There are a few errors, but I enjoyed the stories so much that I overlooked the errors.  On a professional level though more care does need to be given to the editing and proof reading.

In all three of these books the hero fell completely in love with the heroine BEFORE any physical intimacy.  Most people today think that is unrealistic, but I do not.  In the first book "His Lordships Vow" the heroine was plain looking, so it had nothing to do with beauty although he did find her very pretty.  The hero loved her smarts and down to earth nature.  In the second book "The Bride Wore Blue",  the heroine is very beautiful, but the hero fell in love with her totally loving and giving nature when she rescued him from what could have been certain death.  In the third book "With His Ring", the hero and the heroine were friends since childhood.  There is nothing like falling in love with and marrying your best friend.  The third book was also funny as heck in some parts.  I was laughing so much at Glee's antics.

I have two more regency romance books by Cheryl Bolen on my kindle to read.  Ms. Bolen has many other regency romance books.

  

     

Kindle Fire for Reading

For a long time I practically swore that I would never buy a kindle.  I am a staunch book reader and decided that I only wanted books from a bookstore.  It didn't matter if it was an online bookstore or a brick and mortar one; as long as it was a book like we have had for centuries. 

I finally caved in and in February I treated myself to a kindle fire and I LOVE it.  I have downloaded so many books onto my kindle and read most of them so far.  I also listen to music on my kindle, but I would say that 99 percent of the time I use it for reading books.  I do still purchase books from bookstores though, just not as many.  Decorating books and cookbooks, for example, are better purchased in book form.  I rarely use my kindle for going online, but it is nice to know that I can browse the web from it.  I am also not interested in downloading dozens of apps that I know I will not use.  I do also watch movies on my kindle but not often.  Thanks Amazon!