I am all about the mainstream fiction. Now don't get me wrong I can dig literature if the story is right. I can bury myself in stories with meaning and a tale to tell. However I am all about reading for fun. A good novel can take you on an adventure. You can become the hot witch, the private eye, the murder cop, the deep in love English lady, the down on your luck mom. You can become anything that your imagination allows and I love that. It is a huge part of why I write.
Anyway one of my favorite authors is Jonathan Kellerman. He writes crime books of the fictional variety. I adore him!!!! So this week I picked up one of his books that doesn't focus on his usual main crime fighter Alex Delaware but instead dealt with two brothers. One a homicide cop and the other a private eye. Both very diffrent. They share a mother but they have different fathers. Each was a cop. One died in the line while the other drank himself to death. This made for some interesting dynamic between the brothers. They each were working a case of a missing college girl that lead to a Hollywood double murder. The story had everything I love about Kellerman. The psychology side of crime as well as the mystery and suspense he is so good at. The story was quick. I read it in 2 days. I am a very fast reader though, lol. I wholeheartedly recommend this book!!!
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Book Review: Eat This, Not That!
I picked up this book the other day after I saw an article on MSN called 20 Worst Kid's Foods in America. It's not as practical for me as I generally am not buying things like frozen dinners or chips, but I still managed to learn some things. A lot of 'healthy' food is just marketing, and fats and sugars are taken out, and replaced with fillers and HFC (high fructose corn syrup) that don't do anything for you but fill up your 'healthier' food with empty calories.
I learned that one of my favorite 'organic' spaghetti sauces is one of the worst on the market, and that another brand I'd been passing over actually has half then calories and fat and the same general ingredients. The thing I found most useful was the way the book itself was divided. Instead of saying "don't eat salty fatty foods" the book takes the approach of understand that sometimes, you're just going to eat it. So instead of eating 3,000 calories worth of this, why not 1200 of that? Just about every kind of food you could want is covered.
Overall, it's interesting. I'm not sure how much of it I will use seeing as I really don't shop at the grocery store for junk foods. Parts of it will be quite useful though, and I'm also going to buy my mom a copy for her kitchen. For someone who is looking to eat in a healthier way without having to drastically change your lifestyle, this would be perfect.
Stars: 4 out of 5
Recommend: Yes, and I would buy it again.
I learned that one of my favorite 'organic' spaghetti sauces is one of the worst on the market, and that another brand I'd been passing over actually has half then calories and fat and the same general ingredients. The thing I found most useful was the way the book itself was divided. Instead of saying "don't eat salty fatty foods" the book takes the approach of understand that sometimes, you're just going to eat it. So instead of eating 3,000 calories worth of this, why not 1200 of that? Just about every kind of food you could want is covered.
Overall, it's interesting. I'm not sure how much of it I will use seeing as I really don't shop at the grocery store for junk foods. Parts of it will be quite useful though, and I'm also going to buy my mom a copy for her kitchen. For someone who is looking to eat in a healthier way without having to drastically change your lifestyle, this would be perfect.
Stars: 4 out of 5
Recommend: Yes, and I would buy it again.
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