Books read May 30

The Right Wrong Number: A Short Story  by Barbara Delinsky
Cute short story about Carly Kelly who runs her own shop for plants. It's in a college town and a huge store wants has given her a chance to incorporate with them.
She arrives home and calls to cancel her plans with her family but dials the phone wrong and ends up talking to Charlie who's an editor and they are getting along just great when she drops her phone in  a bucket of water.
Like how she tries to find out who he is and attempts to misdial a lot more numbers to get him back on the new phone.
Book also includes an excerpt from Sweet Salt Air. Othe works by the author are highlighted at the end.
About the authoris included.

Two Seasons of Romance by Lyn Cote
Like how all four books are different but the same: their each have caring emotional people in them.
What I like are the different locations that are described. Love how some have come back to help with their relatives due to health problems, and to help them out also.
Loved learning about watermelon plug/wedge-never knew this!  Would read more from this author. Stories are short but worth it.

Back to Eden Gardening: The Easy Organic Way to Grow Food (Homesteading Freedom) by Bo Tucker
Table of contents where it has different styles of gardens to choose from along with spices and herbs.
Comparing the Eden method with conventional gardening. Shows the differences between them and why Eden will produce more crops.
Shows different layers needed with pictures.
Like section on pests and good and bad ones and how to spray using non chemicals to get rid of things.
Each vegetable it states when to plant it and what to expect. Fruits are also discussed along with use of chickens and ducks.
Love section on composting as i am still having a problem and now I know why-I had the portions mixed up between green and brown items.
Love all the information in this book.
A KEEPER!

Mini Farming: How to Create a Sustainable Organic Garden in Your Backyard You Can Be Proud Of by Better Gardening Guides
What I like about this book are the choices available and the author goes over everything from selection of seeds to plant to the container and even dirt and other things that are important.
Found a lot of good information about putting several of our crops on trellis, freeing up the ground for lower plants where everything will get sunlight.
X resource book.

Container Gardening Month by Month by Gloria Daniels
Free calender offer, and table of contents is broken up by months of the year.
Intro talks about zone you are in so you make sure you get right things for it, to grow properly.
Starts out talking about planning, seed catalogs, inventory of pots you have.
Love that it not only talks about flower seeds but how to germinate them and also vegetable seeds and bulbs.
Tiny pictures along the way. About the author is included at the end.

Growing up Country:memories of an Iowa Farm Girl by Carol Bodensteiner

What I like about this book are the stories each chpater holds. Everything about daily life on the farm and how to do things, with your hands back then.

How to grow, harvest and preserve garden food along with food from hunting and fishing. So many different methods that are lost to us today using appliances and electricity.

Reminds me so much of our family farm next door where the cows where and watching the machinery as the milk was pasturized-never knew there were that many thngs in place to be sure it was free from bacteria.

Husband also grew up and would visit his grandparents house in Ohio where they raised show pigs and hogs and had a manager for the farm. Still asking him questions as they arise while reading the book to hear how different things were from RI to OH.

Reader discussion guide also included Some pictures throughout the book.

 

Hugo The Secret to Happiness by Suzy Liebermann

This tablet book needs to be read sideways. Starts out with Hugo and all their friends, very colorful children's book. Find it hard to read dark print on a dark background.

They are sad because he can not find happiness. The others help him out.

Author bio at the end. 

My Stand Mixer Ice Cream Maker Attachment Cookbook by Lily Charles

This book deceived me because I thought I could just use my stand mixer to make ice cream. You really need a lot of other ice cream attachments.

Starts with a table of contents, an intro, how to use a freezing appliance, and a bit about ice cream.

Each recipe starts with a title, summary of the dish and list of ingredients.

Instructions are included and there are no servings, no pictures and NO nutritiona information.

Love combination of flavors you can create.

Electric pressure cooker cookbook: 115 quick, easy and irristible pressure cooker recipes by Vanessa Olsen

This book starts out with a table of contents where recipes are broken up into meals.

Intro talks about the electric pressure cooker and explains in detail why you should get one. How it works is also included along with what each button does.

Each recipe starts with a title, servings and time to make. Brief summary of the dish.

List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sugar, low sodium and low fat products.

Directions are also included. Nutritional information and it states what % the servings size is includes: total calories, protein, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs and fiber.

There are NO pictures. Don't understand why you'd want to use a box mix or canned products when you can make it yourself, fresher and cheaper.

Conversion charts are listed at the end. Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.

On the Rocks Large Print (Spirit Animal Large Print Book 1) by Barbara Neville 

Story starts out on the wrong track for me as it's a lot of swearing.  When I hear about the situation it's understandable but still...

Roxanne Rockerfeller (Annie) is doing a roundup and her partner has gone off to corral other animals. Problems arise from a lot of different sources.

Love hearing about the animals and how they react and the things they do.  There are a lot of colorful characters along the way.

21 Stress Relief Smoothie Recipes by Grace Lawrence 
This book starts out with a table of contents and an introduction about how this book can help you.
Has a chapter where it lists the different fruits, vegetables and other things and what good they can do for your system.
Recipes include a title, summary of the smoothie and list of ingredients where you can use low fat milk and other products.
Directions are given how to prepare it.
There are NO pictures. There is NO nutritional information.

Grandma's Favorites 41 easy as pie recipes by Mary Brown
This book starts out with an offer of other free ebooks.
Table of contents where recipes are not in any specific order.
Intro then the recipes.
Each recipe starts with a title, summary of the dish, list of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your heathlier dietary needs: low sodium, low sugar and low fat products.
Directions and sometimes a side note are included.
No servings sizes so you should be able to get at least 8 slices if not more if the slices are thinner sliced.
There are no pictures. There is NO nutrtioanl information.
As with the other recipe book these are old fashioned pie recipes, handed down from generation to generation.
Sugar free pie recipes are included. Differnet recipes for making different types of pie crusts are listed at the end.
Different methods of the edging are included along with baking secrets, about the author, and resources are listed at the end.

Grandma’s Favorites – Over 30 Tasty Time Honored Cookie Recipes by Mary Brown
Book starts out with offer of another free ebook, Table of contents were the recipes are not broken up in any special order.
Intro about how the book got started. Each recipe starts with a title, summary of the dish, list of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low sugar and low fat products.
Directions are given along with servings per recipe.
There are NO pictures.  There is NO nutritional inforatmion.
Old fashioned recipes-the kind I grew up on-it's good to have them all in one place.
Baking tips and tricks are included where it also tells you what to expect depending on the sugars you use, the fat/butter products, eggs, and different flours available.
Conversion charts for oven tmerperatures and how to solve other common problems, about the author and history of the family along with very old pictures of the ovens, resources are also included.

Ten Happy Easter Stories For Children 4-8 Years Old (Perfect for Bedtime And Young Readers) (Happy Stories For Children 4-8 Years Old) by Leslie Garland
Like this children's book because it can be read over the course of a week or more. Very small colorful pictures at the start of each book.
Cute stories about Easter.

Goodnight, Campsite by Loretta Sponsler, Olga Shevchenko
Children's colorful rhyming book about a stay at the campsite. Liked all the things that are depicted on the pages.
Print is a bit small and sometimes hard to read on the background.
Love bingo game at the end.

Natural Homemade Cleaners :The Ultimate Guide by Encore Books, Susan Hewsten
I have read other books similar and found this one very resourceful. Things you buy at the store cost so much money with tax also. Love having things I can make at home that will handle the problem by using things I already have that are in their natural state.
Great resource book to keep on hand.

Giant and Tiny a book of opposites by Hadas Korb and Ortal Zeret
Colorful children's book showing the things are are opposite to one another.
Pictures are on one side of the book and words on other side. Lot of things you could see everyday but don't see them as being opposites.
Inclluded are four pages of opposites shown at the end.  There are other works by the authors highlighted at the end.
Also a clickable link to get a free creative kit.

Mediterranean cookbook: the right stuffing, the full guide for delicious stuffed dishes by shira barak

Offer of a free gift, table of contents and dishes broken up by food categories.

Introduction talks about the Iran/turkey, balkan, greece, spain and other middle east phrases and what it means

The different parts of the stuffing are summarized. Each recipe starts with a title, summary of the dish,

list of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar products.

Some items may be hard to find at your regular store: Baharat and Tahini. Directions are given and how to serve them.  Not every recipe has a color photograph.

Other works by the author is highlighted at the end. Index of dishes are listed at the end.

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Dana Dinosaurs great adventures 7 funny rhyming children's picture book collections Volume 1 by Leslie Garland

Starts out with listing of other fun collections surrounding other holidays the author has written.

Each story starts out with a title, color photo.Like the rhyming comparisons that are brought up.

Each page also has color photos of what the story is telling you about.

Very cute children's stories and they are short so you can at least one done if not more.

Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.

Dana Dinosaur potty training adventure by Leslie Garland

Cute story about how to potty train a dinosaur. Other works by the author are highlighted at the beginning and end.

Very colorful rhyming children's story.

Dana Dinosaur takes a bath by Leslie Garland

Very colorful rhyming children's story.

Like how she prepares for her bath.

Cute story. Other works by the author are highlighted at the beginning and end.

 

Dana Dinosaur's New Brother by Leslie Garland

Very colorful rhyming children's story. This one is about how the family prepares for a new baby.

Other works by the author are highlighted at the beginning and end.

Dana Dinosaur Ties Her Shoes by Leslie Garland

Very colorful rhyming children's story. Our grandson is going through the process of learning this feat also and there are so many ways it can be done.

She asks many of her friends for help. Like the message this one sends to the kids.

Other works by the author are highlighted at the beginning and end.