Time For Dad

I received the Time with God for Fathers devotional by Jack Countryman from Thomas Nelson Publishing!! This is a beautiful book. The hard maroon cover on the outside and cream colored pages on the inside gives the book a beautiful antique look.

The devotional is not date specific and covers an array of topics. Each devotional consists of a passage of Scripture and a message from the author. They are quick reads and each cover important aspects of being a father. This devotional provides the encouragement many fathers need daily. The focus of this book isn't to teach a man how to be a father, but to bring him closer to God so that he may become a better father by following the example God sets for us. The book also includes a list of Biblical references for topics in the back of the book, as well as a section for notes at the back of the book.
This is a great gift for Father's Day! I highly recommend this book for all dads, whether you are a new dad, or already have grandchildren... spending time with God will only make you a better dad, a better example to your children and grandchildren God's true love for us!
The critical topics of fatherhood include:

The importance of worship, obedience, what to do when troubles come, how to have courage and overcome fear, examining your attitude, finding strength and learning to be patient, trusting God and having the patience to wait on Him, etc. The topics chosen are absolutely fantastic and the verses selected are vital to a father's faith walk. The thing I loved most about each topic was the commentary that went with each Scripture. As if the Scriptures were not enough, the commentary takes you deeper in your faith and reads as a devotional. So, the book is not merely a collection of pertinent Scriptures, but an expansion of those Truths to help the Father fight the fight of faith.

The Quilter's Bible

If you own only one book about quilting it should be this one.  It has everything in it and explains in great detail how to do each trick of the trade.  I have several Quilting Books and Magazines from very special artists and let me tell you I wish I would have found this book first.  It certainly would have  saved me a great deal of money.........or I would have just spent it all on fabric.  Who knows!!!

It starts out with all the instruments and equipments you will need, then it tells you what you will learn one section at a time.  Naturally it sounds a little overwhelming but it really isn't.  It also tells you how to see how much fabric you would need for a certain section which is very helpful since the really nice fabric is not cheap you know.

It also has lots of how to pictures to help you along.  As you can see I just can't quit talking about this book.  I think I need to go sit down with my cup of coffee and go over it all again.

As usual this book was given to me from FSB Associates in return of my honest feelings about this book.  If I could afford it I would give it to any person just starting out. In return for this book I was to write a review of this book and I have done that.  You will enjoy this one.

Llilly's Wedding Quilt

Every once in awhile you read one of those books that keeps you captivated for hours and it's hard to even put down. I find that I also clench my teeth through the whole book. I can say that my jaw and teeth felt the effects of Lilly's Wedding Quilt the next day as it took me less than twelve straight hours of teeth clenching reading to finish.


The first chapter starts off with a horse thief and finding a way to hide the fact that somebody is shot and trying to hide the stolen horse. When Lilly comes across the man she has been in love with since grade school hiding in a barn with a gunshot she realizes that he is the horse thief and is willing to help him cover it up because he is going to offer to buy the horse for above it's price to protect it from it's abusive owner. Amongst it all they manage to "accidentally" announce to their community that they are engaged and will be married in three weeks.
As they have a whirl-wind three weeks they could call off the engagement but decide they made the announcement they must go through with it and will learn to love each other. We get to go on their journey to find how to love each other and accept each others passions, which neither cared for to begin with.

Kelly Long has joined the ranks of one of my favorite artists as I couldn't even think about putting this book down until it's finish at one in the morning. I was on edge waiting for each other to come the realization that the love they were wanting was right there. Kelly had an amazing ability to keep me turning and wondering where this new adventure would be taking our characters. I highly, highly recommend Lilly's Wedding Quilt by Kelly Long.

I was given this complimentary book to post a review for Thomas Nellson publishers, I received no monetary gain for my endeavor. 

The Night Season

In Chelsea Cain's latest thriller, "The Night Season," Homicide Detective Archie Sheridan is on the trail of a psychotic killer who uses a most unusual weapon to dispatch his victims. Sheridan has stopped popping pain pills and dutifully attends his psychotherapy sessions. However, he will never forget the torture and humiliation that Gretchen Lowell, known as "the Beauty Killer," inflicted on him. "His scars were as much a part of him as his eye color." This time around, Cain wisely puts Gretchen on the back burner; the "Beauty Killer" makes a brief appearance, but is not the story's central focus.


Archie has his hands full: The dead body of a woman is found on a carousel; skeletal remains that were missing for sixty years have suddenly surfaced; and a nine-year-old boy is missing. At Archie's side is Susan Ward, an aggressive, sassy, and extremely sharp reporter with an aptitude for digging up arcane facts. She writes a "quirky crime roundup column" and is always on the lookout for juicy material. She sports raspberry-colored hair and rainbow striped boots, smokes cigarettes, and wisecracks incessantly. Archie has a soft spot in his heart for the irrepressible Susan, so he gives her more leeway than he would to most reporters.
Meanwhile, a potential catastrophe threatens the city. Two weeks of heavy rains ("the kind of rain that got in your eyes and streamed down your cheeks") have pummeled Portland, Oregon, and the Willamette River is threatening to overflow. Cain maintains an excruciating level of suspense, nicely tying the menace of the rising waters to the search for a serial killer who enjoys watching people die. The scenes depicting the out-of-control flood waters washing away everything in their path are terrifyingly realistic.

Along with Archie, who is daring and heroic, the author showcases the ever lively and curious Susan (who in one scene is so uncharacteristically stupid that readers will want to shake her), the witty and astute medical examiner, Lorenzo Robbins, and Archie's friends and colleagues, Detectives Henry Sobol, Claire Masland, Jeff Heil, and FBI profiler Anne Boyd. Although the novel contains a few formulaic elements that do not quite ring true, they do not detract markedly from the book's entertainment value. "The Night Season" has sharp dialogue, an intriguing plot, a brisk prose style, and effective descriptive writing. This is a sure-fire page-turner and one of Chelsea Cain's most compelling works of fiction to date

Voyage With The Vikings

Watch for falling ice and flying spears!


“Your Christ is a God of peace—not war!” Erik the Red said. “He has no place in Greenland.”

Mr. Whittaker, a kind but mysterious inventor, has sent cousins Patrick and Beth to Greenland through the Imagination Station. It’s the year 1000, and they meet Viking Erik the Red, who is angry about the new God. Mr. Whittaker wants the cousins to find a Sunstone, but what does one look like? And what does it have to do with the mysterious letter found in the inventor’s workshop? Most important, can Patrick and Beth find a Sunstone before Erik’s son Leif sails away with the Imagination Station on board his ship?

The key to adventure lies within your imagination! What to join Patrick and Beth on their adventures? Visit www.TheImaginationStation.com. You’ll find out more fun facts about Vikings and the animals of Greenland. Plus you’ll get the scoop on the next book, and much more!

Sounds like a fun trip doesn't it?????

The Sacred Journey

The Sacred Journey by Charles Foster was given to me by Booksneeze in return for an honest review for them. I am in no way being compensated for this gesture.

This is easily one of the best books I've ever read, and I am honored to be the first person to give it a 5-star rating. I've read all other 7 titles in the Ancient Practices Series, and for me this is the best.


In the foreword to the book, editor Phyllis Tickle warns that every single person who reads the book will totally disagree with at least something that the author writes. Judging from other reviews, she may be right. I imagine some young earth creationists will cringe when Foster writes about the humans who inhabited the Gargas caves in the French Pyrenees some 27,000 years ago. Other Christians might struggle with the author referring to our "hippie" God. Some may have a problem with Foster describing Buddhist, Hindu, or Muslim pilgrimage. I don't.

One reviewer is disappointed by the author advocating that we replace the word "Christian" with something else. But the fact is, we HAVE wrecked that word by our actions as a collective body of believers. Contrary to what the reviewer says, Foster is not looking for a more "cool" term. He simply wants to make the term more accurate to what the Bible actually describes as a person who follows Christ. "Jesus follower" is more accurate to what the Bible teaches than the generic "Christian," so I'm puzzled as to why anyone would object to that. And as Foster points out, in most versions of the Bible the word "Christian" is only mentioned 3 times.

Also, Foster isn't calling for every single person to get up and take a 2-week pilgrimage somewhere. At the end of the book he talks about a woman who's bound to a wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis, and he has nothing but praise for her even though she can't physically walk on a pilgrimage.
Foster's section on Cain as a wanderer is brilliant, and well worth reading several times. Chapter 3 is perhaps the best in the book. Foster points out more than once that the journey is more important than arrival.

The other point that resonated with me the most is that.."Everyone who takes to the road is searching, and no one comes back saying 'that was a waste of time.' There is a 100 percent encounter rate."

Rock Bottom

Environmental and consumer advocate Brockovich has created a protagonist in her own image in this highly melodramatic thriller, the first in a new series.

Angela Joy "AJ" Palladino left Scotia, W.Va., population 867, as an unwed 17-year-old mother following a terrible accident that almost killed her. Ten years later, after success and fame in a battle against Capital Power that earned her the sobriquet "the People's Champion," she returns to Scotia, to assist lawyer Zachariah Hardy in a fight against Masterson Mining's new mountaintop removal project.

When Hardy dies before AJ's arrival, she teams with Hardy's lawyer daughter, Elizabeth, to combat the company owned by dastardly Kyle Masterson and run by Kyle's son, Cole, father of AJ's son, David. As the two women wage an uphill battle against murderous opposition, Brockovich's environmental message gets buried in a sludge pile of clichés.

I was given this book to review by FSB Associates for an honest review and with no monetary gain.

What Will Happen To Me?

What Will Happen To Me? by Howard Zehr and Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz is a book that was given to me to review by FSBAssociates for no monetary gain and to give my honest thoughts.

First off I have 3 uncles that are Wardens in the Texas Prison System so I felt like I was going to be hard to impress, but this book proved me wrong.  They interviewed 30 children whose parents are inarcerated, along with the childrens dreams and hopes.  We also have the reflections from the grandparents point of view.  Naturally they want to help with the children but sometimes they are not physically able or financially able to do so.  Our government is there to help a single Mother but there is nothing that can be done to help the grandparents, our government is badly slipping in my thoughts.  I think that where ever the children are staying they should be compensated to help pay for whatever the  children need or want.

Now I know that I am probably looking at this through rose colored glasses but I do think we could help a little more that we are presently doing.  After you read this book you will see how sad and put upon these children really are.  They would like a hug from their Mom or Dad right now--not in 15 years.  I'm not saying that the parents don't deserve the time but there has to be a better way to work on this so we do not get these children in prison in a few years.

In other words I think this book has some great points, but it is sort of a very sad read about our younger generation.  I think it would do us all good to take a few minutes to read through this book and stop and think then read through it again.  Then let's do something, okay?

Left At The Altar

Kimberley Kennedy, a successful TV anchor, endured one of women's worst nightmares: being left at the altar. In the book Left at the Altar, Kimberley recounts the events of her wedding rehearsal when she realized her fiancé Lew was not going to marry her and the aftermath of her devastation. However, her story does not end there. Instead, her rejection by her fiancé is the beginning of her love story with Jesus. In the narrative that has the feel of a woman sitting down and talking to you rather than a self-help book, Kimberley discusses the warning signs she could see she had ignored and the steps that led to healing.


In addition to Kimberley's thoughts, her sister writes part of the story--the details of the moment that Kimberley can't recall because of her shock. The book also shares the perspective of therapist, other women's stories, and even men who have rejected women. These are nice additions to the book. The book ends with steps for dealing with rejection and moving on.

Overall, I enjoyed the book. I don't read a lot of self-help books, but this book felt more like a woman sharing her story and encouraging others who have felt rejected than a how-to book. The book seemed to jump around from topic to topic, and telling the story from beginning to end would have been more cohesive than lumping topics together in chapters by topic. After the first few chapters, I got used to it though.

Kimberley's single status at the time of the book makes it poignant since she is still dealing with the loneliness that can come from being rejected and left alone. However, she is no longer wallowing in the rejection, which enables her to offer hope to the reader. My favorite line from the book is one I will take with me in life. "Man's rejection is God's protection. "

This book was given to me by Thomas Nelson publishers to review for them, there was no monetary gain on my part at all.

E=MC2 Simple Physics

E=MC2: Simple Physics uses a casually brilliant and humorously fun approach to explaining the most significant scientific theories of our time. Anyone can grasp the easy to understand physics examples highlighted and reviewed in this book. The examples are laid out in the most logical and practical way for the reader, making it possible to enjoy this book as bedtime reading material!


Many of the theories in the book will not surprise the reader, such as the laws of gravity (several apples tied together will fall to the ground at the same time), but other theories are a bit of a surprise after all and are just plain fun (you drive at 22mph, the police pass you at 68 mph, an erroneous speeding ticket may be in your future).


E=MC2: Simple Physics stays true to its theoretical roots, and puts Einstein against Galileo and Newton by continuously summarizing and developing on the intricate layers of theoretical thought on each of the topics. This book is for students, adults interested in scientific thought, or even a general audience of anyone curious about the formal laws of science affecting our world.


After a decade of working in several NYC law departments and teaching, Poppy decided she enjoyed writing full-time. She currently works as a freelance writing consultant, and lives with her husband and sons on the East Coast.


This book was provided free of any obligation by FSB Associates. No monetary or any other form of compensation was received.