She Who Must Be Obeyed (sort of) says we’re doin’ a ‘two-fer’ today! I’m thinkin’ bacon and more bacon! Or peanut butter! But nooooo! Her Momness says we’re doin’ two books by two different female authors. One fiction. One non. Both have strong female characters or POVs.
They are She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me by Emma Brockes (non-fiction). The other is On Mystic Lake. By Kristin Hannah.
Cold. Defenseless. Hungry. Bleeding. Sick. Lost.
It’s not a good day for two middle school girls lost in the vast untamed wildness of Wisconsin’s Northwoods during the shank end of summer. The two ex-best friends must find a way to put their differences aside and work together in order to survive. Can they? Will they?
Jocelyn (Joss) and Alejandra (Alex) have been BFFs since kindergarten. But after two weeks at summer Spanish camp with uber cool Laura Longbottom hanging on her every wood, Alex isn’t interested in brainy and “nerdy” Joss. But their families have been taking joint vacations to “Allard’s Roost” family cabin on Wisconsin’s Buttercup Lake for years. So Joss hopes that their upcoming trip will provide an opportunity to restore and rekindle the friendship.
Will it?
Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
“But it’s only a two-day trip. What could possibly happen?”
The answer is plenty in this lithe and lively combination of travel, technology, geography, adventure, romance and levity by Michael Wegner.
Mom: With a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be…
Kimber: Earth to Mom. Come in, Mom. Methinks you’re in the wrong season.
Mom: Well, let’s not get picky here, okay?
Kimber: Speaking of “picky” – sort of – The Perilous Voyage thingy reminded me of that story where Caractacus Potts rebuilds that old race car for his littleuns after buying it for thirty shillings to prevent the car from becoming scrap metal.
Mom: You mean the book by Ian Fleming?
Kimber: Naw. I was thinkin’ more the movie with that Dick van Dyke dude.
Mom: Funny you should mention that. I was thinking Jules Vernes’ Around the World in Eighty Days.
Kimber: With Phileas Fogg and Passepartout?
Mom: Exactamundo!
“Eureka!” says Mom the other day, coming home from the library. With both arms full of books. And then some.
I have no idea why Mom says this. But she says it a lot. Especially when she’s lugging home another truck load of “books” from The Book Place.
Stressed out? Worn out? Bummed out? Feeling fearful or frustrated? Uncertain or overcome? Helpless?
What if there’s help?
What’s if there’s someone to walk with you? Guide you. Shoulder the load. So you don’t have to go it alone. What if this help was sent from above? Not someone who, like us, is prone to getting worn out, stressed out or bummed out. But a “heavenly helper” who’s ever strong and powerful. Never tires. Is always near. Unhindered by what hinders us.
Interested?
Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
We didn’t think our favorite ranger, Ranger Rose the PAWsome, could top her last book, Trip Tales: From Family Camping to Life as a Ranger. Which we like, totally love-ified. (See our brilliant review: Outdoor Memoir Delights in Trip Tales.)
Just shows you what we know.
Cuz Ranger Rose is back! With as much insight, info. and entertainment as ever! In fact, her latest book, Tales From a Rogue Ranger, Totally Rocks. In fact again, Her Momness almost dropped it in the sink. Reading while teeth-brushing. Cuz Mom couldn’t put it down!
Silly Mom. (Like that’s new. Insert Kimber eye roll here.)
Anyway, here’s the scoop on Ranger Roses’s latest magnum opus:
Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
“We save dogs, Roz, that’s what we do.”
This is the story of a woman who loves dogs. So far, so good. Here’s the main book blurb:
You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, heaven – ?!
Okay, okay. So we stole that from Rod Serling. But it applies pretty well to this short little tome by Mitch Albom entitled the five people you meet in heaven.
Q: What’s the first thing that jumps out at you from the title?
“Batter up!”
In case ya missed it the first 6,897 times, She Who Must Be Obeyed is what ya might call a Baseball Nut. Once the season starts, it’s Dodgers Girl from here to kingdom (or Series) come! (Don’t tell her I said that, okay?).
Wait. Where was I?
Oh yeah. Baseball book. Anyway, when we heard about this cute little book narrated by a talking baseball named Bennie – I’m not makin’ this up – one of us stepped right up to the batter’s box and started swingin’. Like this:
‘What?’
Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Her Momness: Kimber, what are you doing?
Kimber: Don’t interrupt now, Mom! I’m practicing my pedaling.
Her Momness: You’re what?
Kimber: You know, pedaling. Like that book we just read. About those two hoomans who travel all over creation on their buy-shekels. (No idea what that means. Sounds expensive.) You can fill peeps in while I keep pedalling…
Pages & Paws 