Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Books read Oct 3






The Holiday Truce by Felicia Rogers
Lena and Frank are riding together from FL to CO. It's near Christmas so the boss didn't want her to pick a married man with kids.
She really tries to get along with him but...he really tries to get along with her.
When they become stranded and not dressed for the weather they find a cabin with cans of food. He takes charge and makes a fire to keep them warm.
Outhouse is another story. They nag at one another and decide to call a truce to get through the ordeal of being lost.
What I like about this is how different the two are but they are thrown together for very long road trip around the holidays.
Love the cabin and only cans of beans to survive on. Outhouse has much traffic.
Because they spend so much time together they talk to one another...
Short but tragic and funny all at the same time.





Up Chit Creek Series: Kira Callahan Mystery By Catherine Astolfo
Kira works at the retirement center where most everybody has a memory issue and are old.
She finds a dead man with a woman sitting nearby, knife sticking out of the man's back.
Her older sister owns and run the center. Sheriff and deputies come out but it's hard to question those who don't respond due to their illnesses.
Love hearing about the rooms available in the mansion for the residents to use. Liked learning about others past and the history of the town.
It's a bit confusing to keep track of them all.
Kira is involved in finding clues, by listening or asking questions of others...
She confides in George, her boyfriend and he has more suggestions as more pass away...
Adult sex scenes. Loved the Leonard Cohen lyrics, priceless!  Author bio at the end along with other works.
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The Dump Cake Gourmet: 25 Outrageously Delicious Dump Cake Recipes by Grace Minello 
There are many books in this collection:
Book starts out with table of contents  and an introduction.
Each recipe has a title, servings and ingredients. Not sure if you can substitute for healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar.
Directions  are included. There are no photos.
Some nutritional information is provided: calories, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs, protein, sugar and sodium levels are no divulged.
For faster cakes you can use cake mix and pie fillings.
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Dump Cake diet by Jen Trivaalli
Starts with an introduction about dump cakes.
Each recipe starts with a title and has some nutritional information listed: servings, calories, cholesterol, fiber, sodium, carbs, fat-NOT broken up into good and bad, protein.
List of ingredients and I'm not sure if you can substitute for butter for your healthier dietary needs.
directions are included. There are no pictures.
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The Paleo Gourmet wraps by Jen Trivalli and Danyale Lebon
Foreword is given and an introduction about a wrap.
Each recipe starts with a title, servings, prep time. List of ingredients is included and I'm not sure if you can substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low sugar, low fat.
Directions but no pictures. Some nutritional information si given: calories, carbs, fat-NOT broken u pinto good and bad, protein and sodium.
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Dump dinners diet by Danyale Lebon
Intro and chapters on benefits of organic food.
Each recipe starts with a title, servings and cook time.
List of ingredients and some included packaged or canned items. Not sure if you can substitute for healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar items.
Directions are given. There are no pictures. There is no nutritional information.
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Mason Jar Meals by Danyale Lebon
Benefits are discussed. Recipe start with a title, summary and prep and cook times. Ingredients and servings.
Directions are included. There are no pictures. Some nutritional information is provided: calories, fat-NOT broken up into good and bad, carbs, protein.
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Nutribullet recipe book by Danyale Lebon
Introduction and all about the nutribullet blender. Each recipe includes a title, servings, calories per serving. List of ingredients and directions. There are no pictures. There is no nutritional information.
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Fruit Fusion by Danyale Lebon
Talks about why you need to drink more water and the benefits of doing so.
How to make your own flavored water and infused ice cubs and teas.
Each recipe includes a title, summary list of ingredients and direction. Nutritional information includes vitamins and minerals: vit a, beta carotene, flavonaids, copper, vit K, iron, manganese, low calories, fiber, antioxidants and more.
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Furit Fusion smoothies
Intro talks about the history of smoothies and typical ingredients.
Each ingredient is known for medicinal uses or for reducing inflammation, etc.
Each recipe includes a title short summary. Servings. Nutr info per serving has calories, fat-NOT broken up into good and bad, carbs, protein, fiber, sodium and sugar. List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, low sugar.
Also has directions. . There are no pictures.
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Clean eating: lose weight for life
Intro and what clean eating is.
Has meal plans along with recipes.
Has a grocery list for the recipes also and how much you'd need to buy.
Each recipe starts with a title summary and servings. Calories, fat=NOT broken up into good or bad, protein and carbs. There is no sodium or sugar mentioned.
List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar.
Directions are included but no pictures.
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Clean eating: how to look and feel younger through the art of mindful eating
Intro and importance of clean eating for your skin  and other body  parts, and the nutrients associated with it.
Best foods to help you achieve better body and what each fruit or vegetable will do for you.
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Adrenal reset
Intro and about the diet plan.
Has listings of food to eat and those to avoid.
Each recipe starts with a title, servings per recipe, calories, protein and carbs. Ingredient listings and directions.
No pics and you should be able to sub for healthier dietary needs.
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Antiflamatory Diet
Intro about this disease and what you should eat and not eat.
Exercises can help and she tells you the different ones. Each recipe starts with a title servings and calories per serving.
Ingredients and directions. There is no other nutritional information and there are no pictures.
Has a week of meal plans.
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Leptin resistance diet secrets
Intro and discusses how to suppress appetites and cravings.
Has many rules: only 3 meals a day, nothing after dinner, etc.
Meal plans are included.
Recipes include a title, summary and list of ingredients
 and directions. No servings, no pictures and no nutritional information.
Should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, low sugar, etc
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Hormone Reset Diet
Intro and how hormones play a big part in losing weight.
Gives examples of good food selections in each food group.
Each recipe includes a title summary,  and list of ingredients along wtih direction. There are no pictures. There is no nutritional information.
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Ketogenic diet weight loss for woman
Intro and benefits of this diet.
Has a chart of vegetables, amount and net carbs.
Also a chart of what foods to avoid and why.
Each recipe includes a title, net carbs, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, protein. List of ingredients and directions.
There are no pictures.
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The Ultimate honey cure
Intro and why honey is good for us.  Varieties and how honey is made is discussed.
Discussions on why honey is good for internal and external parts of your body.
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Growing organic berries
Intro and then Q&A on how to grow the berries.
Goes through many berries and talks about how to grow them with considerations to planting, harvesting, sun, water, etc..
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DIY Household hacks
Intro and talks about each room in the house of how to clean and organize things.
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Essential oils
Intro and history of essential oil use from different countries. .
Basics of extraction and distillation, etc are summarized.
Love the parts about potential dangers.
Uses and benefits are discussed.
Large listing of oils, where the source came from and a summary of things it's useful for.
Recipes include a title, summary and list of ingredients along with directions.
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Mindfulness
Intro and understanding stress, anxiety and depression, especially in the work place.
Main causes and how to use natural therapies.
How meditation can help.
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Journaling: mastery in minutes
Intro and everything you need to know about journaling, Q&A style.
Importance and goals and options available.
Samples included.






Real Food for Healthy People: A recipe and resource guide by Carol D'Anca 
This book starts out with what real food means and how she discovered her pills were not the way to go.
Table of contents is next  then preparing for the successful outcome. Talks about the equipment you will need in the kitchen and why.
using very little oils and grilling is one way and baking.  pictures along the way show cupboards filled with healthy spices and herbs.
Different categorizes of food and what is included in each category is listed. Basic spices are listed and why they are beneficial.
Recipes starts with a title, summary, prep and servings. List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for healthier dietary needs-low sodium, low fat, low sugar, etc although it's going to be hard to find those products as ingredients.
Directions are given along with some recipes that have a color photo but no nutritional information.
Some of the ingredients you might find hard to get at your local grocery store as they are nutritious healthy items.
Don't care for stock used as we found even lower sodium content. 
Lots of categories to choose from along with recipes.
Index included at the end



Christmas with the Millionaire by Heather Spade
Cute short romantic story about a girl who goes to the party alone as her brother is busy elsewhere and she has broken up with her boyfriend.
She's to be auctioned off for a dance at the party for charity. After the masks are removed she notices the man that's been staring at her all night and finds out who he is.
The man arrives and asks who the woman was ahead of him in line and finds out details about her job and that she's the one to be auctioned off for a dance later...
Predictable but festive.






25 Ways to Improve your website by Vinny O'Hare
Starts out with an introduction about the history of how it all started and how it ended up.
Has some really good ideas and the details on how to do the things described. Like it has the tools mentioned and how to use them to evaluate the website.
Shows exact examples of what the author is trying to get across to you about.
Tags, colors and so much to pay attention to and targeting others with similar likes.
So much more to this book and it is a short read, you should read it all and implement the suggestions to have a successful website.
Love the social media sites mentioned at the end brining it to 29 ways to improve your website.
Also a link to more helpful suggestions is mentioned at the end. 





Authentic Fajitas & Burritos: How to make Mexican Traditional Tortilla & many others
This book starts with a lot of history about Mexican cooking and what ingredients are involved.
Explains in detail about tortillas showing pictures of the different types and how you make them using old recipes.
Shows pictures of the process along the way.
Then onto tortilla wheat variety showing a color photo, cooking time, servings and list of ingredients. Directions are included.
There are even low calorie tortillas but I am not familiar with some of the ingredients-masa harina. 
Some include nutritional information: calories, fat-not broken up into good or bad, fiber, carbs and protein. I'd be more interested in sodium and bad fat components.
There are many categories to choose from. 



Unique and healthy pressure cooker recipe cookbook by Clara Grey 
I love my electric pressure cooker but this book is not for me for many reasons.
A free gift at the start of the book-ice cream recipes. Each recipe includes a title, summary of the dish, time and servings along with some nutritional information: calories, proteins, fats-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs. List of ingredient and how to make.
Problem with ingredients is some are listed in cups, others in grams-a lot of conversions to be made before you can even attempt making the recipes.
Keep it American measurements or English metric but not both in a recipe.
For the direction it states to assemble the food in a bowl and then transfer to the instant pot. This is the electric pressure cooker I have and this book does not tell you which of the 10 buttons to press to get the pressure, nor if it's low, medium or high.
Big guessing game. There are only a handful of color photos.
You might be able to substitute for a your healthier dietary needs after you figure out the conversions with weight of measuring the ingredients.
At the end the free ice cream recipes are linked again along with other works by the author.


The Premium Collection 200 healthy recipes  by Jennifer Wittman
Table of contents and then an introduction to the book and what air frying is all about. I do not have an air fryer and we'd probably not get one as our pressure cooker does the job of 7 other appliances.
There are lots of pictures through but not even recipe has a picture.
Each recipe has a title and list of ingredients. Not sure if you can substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, etc.
Directions are given and there is no nutritional information.
For the desserts they start off using biscuit dough in a package-too much sodium for us and also strawberry pie filling-way too much sugar and 1/4 c butter. I do like it tells you how many minutes to cook at at what temperature.
Doesn't give servings either.  Wish start of the title had 'air fryer' in it or I wouldn't have gotten this book.




My First Reading Book by Amber Richards
Introduction about this book and how it uses 3 letter words then increases more letters. The goal is for the child to sound out the words by memorizing a few similar words used frequently.
That is not the way our school system works nor the leapfrog activity games for young children but I can follow along.
Other works by the author, not related to children's reading books are highlighted at the end.



My Invisible Monster a space flight by Alex G. King
Starts out with a free gift ebook. Goes right into the story about Billy in his bedroom and it's time for bed. He wear a spacesuit
Colorful children's story. He jumps and takes off into space. He sees things that others have talked about and he's so amazed.
He meets other creatures and they walk around wobbly as green sand is moving under them.  Billy next lands on a crater filled with green crackers and candy. Wow what an adventure they are on!
Then Billy's mom is calling and that means it's time for bed.  Best part was finding a gift on his night table.


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