Posted in Books on Oct 14th, 2012
BIG NEWS!!! BIG NEWS!!! My beloved husband Kent Donahue’s first book, The Famous Gardner’s Seafoods Ski Show, is now available through online retailers or by ordering through your local bookstore! You’ll love this slice of local Port Orange, Florida history, and Kent is well qualified to tell the story. He is an active member of […]
Well, it’s all official, I’ve gone and created my own publishing company. Technically, I created and named Inheritance Press when I self-published my blog book earlier this year. But in recent months I’ve been branching out. I’ve formalized Inheritance Press as a business entity, sought public input on my logo design, created a website, and […]
For those of you who are following such things, the book to which I have contributed an article, Best of The eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions: Top Articles from the eMagazine’s First Five Years, is officially scheduled for release on April 11. It’s already listed on Amazon. Check it out! Meanwhile, a preview of the table […]
Posted in Books on Jul 20th, 2007
I confess. I’m sucked into the hype. I am one of the two million or so Muggles who pre-ordered Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Amazon guarantees delivery tomorrow, the book’s official release day. I will be waiting most impatiently for its arrival. Dear readers, I plan to be spending a good chunk of this […]
Posted in Books on Aug 14th, 2005
I’ve had to temporarily suspend my reads in progress in favor of writing since I only have so many hours in the day, which means no new book reviews for a while (but stay tuned, my review of The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell will appear in a blog near you as soon as I […]
Posted in Books on Aug 5th, 2005
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a history of that villain we all love to hate from the L. Frank Baum children’s classic, The Wizard of Oz. I hate to write a completely negative review, so I’ll start with something good. I finished it. Even that is not […]
Posted in Books on Jul 27th, 2005
I love the Harry Potter books. Let’s be absolutely clear about that. I loved this one too, every bit as much as the previous five in the series. However, a small part of me can’t help asking, as Harry matures and the storylines get darker, is this really still a children’s series? Sure, Harry at […]
Posted in Books on Jul 3rd, 2005
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) is a love story with a hugely inventive twist. Henry has a genetic disorder that causes him to travel back and forth in time, often to people and events that have significance in his life. It is thus that when Clare, as a young girl, meets Henry for the […]
Posted in Books on Jun 30th, 2005
I took my kids to the library last week and as we were going to the check-out counter, I happened to see Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls) on display. It’s a classic old favorite which occupies a very tender spot in my heart—it’s the first book I ever cried over. And I mean […]
Posted in Books on Jun 26th, 2005
If you are looking for a suspenseful spy novel, this is not it. The Broker (John Grisham) starts off intriguingly enough, with CIA pressure on a departing president to issue a full pardon for former lawyer and power broker Joel Backman. Backman, it seems, holds secrets to a mysterious and powerful satellite surveillance system whose […]
