If you have a business or even if you are planning to ask your boss for a raise you may need to improve your enchantment or likeability.  The author Guy Kawasaki is a guru when it comes to business practices.  He says it not about manipulations to get what you want but really about situations and relationships.  I like that it is so much more than a sales technique.  Establishing relationships … [Read more...]

I had the awesome opportunity to review The Big Show Stopper written by Ken Dalton.  The book opens with a bang at concert where Brady Blackstone is about to perform.  There is an accident and it changes all who know Brady Blackstone.    The other characters Pinky, Bear and Flo end up in California.  And the book helps bring them to light.  They are a lively group and you will immediately … [Read more...]

Do you like a little bit of horror in your books?  Don't read this one at night unless you want to have to peek around the corners.  Complete with Zombies Bowie Ibarra takes you on a bizarre drama complete with revenge, some snark, ghosts and it's a story about a teacher.  His day starts out like any other and then wow it really changes.  All George Zaragosa wants to do is get home to San … [Read more...]

The title itself was very intriguing as a Christian fiction novel.  Deborah Bedford writes a very strong novel about the aftermath of divorce and the affects on the children.  Hilary's ex husband Eric remarries and his new wife blames Hilary for Seth (the son's) accident.  Eric who has been pretty much absent returns to the scene so father and son have to re-examine their relationship.  I … [Read more...]

What I love about Threads West is that it really transports you back to the West.  Reid Lance Rosenthal really takes you back with the descriptions and the writing of the characters.  I found it very hard to put the book down.  The individuals come together from different places to begin the journey.  It reads of course like our history.  People were drawn to the west with the promise of a … [Read more...]

If you are looking for a strong female character you have found one in Max.  Her goal through the book is to locate her family but of course she is sidetracked and that is the basis of this book.  She runs into several people along the way and there is a lot of 'tension' between Alexander and Max which makes for some good reading :)  This is actually the second installment in the series but … [Read more...]

How to Be Perfect is a book by Daniel M. Harrell which is an experiment in living the Old Testament's Book of Leviticus. We all seem to strive to want to be perfect.  The author Pastor Daniel Harrell found church members who agreed to enter, with him, into an experiment involving Old Testament teachings. They followed the commands of Godly living as recorded in the book of Leviticus. The book … [Read more...]