Book Review: The Shack

The Shack by William P. Young

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


If everything in your life is perfect, if you have never experienced a tragedy, and you already know everything there is to know about God, then you have no need to read this book.  But if you have ever been broken, felt the longing for something else, wondered about God, then this is the book for you!



I started reading it, not knowing what to expect, being told it was an awesome book, but at the same time, reading the back cover, not sure I wanted to read what it was dealing with, the abduction of a young girl and the aftermath.



I laughed a little and cried a whole lot! This book was wonderful, and trust me I have never given 5 stars to anything! I moved me in so many ways and on so many levels, and that was just the firs time I read the book, the second time did even more.



I also loved the way the author portrayed God in different ways through out this book. It felt real, because he really captured the essence and the presence and the ideal of God in such a wonderful way, each portrayal at different parts of the book lead believablity to the book and to the account and to the truth of God.



Don' pick this up expecting a fun read, or a light read. This book will move you, and depending on where you are in your life and your own faith journey, it may even challenge you.  Make you feel that you need to or want to know God the way Missy knew God, understood God and believed in God.



It is a tremendous read for anyone, just be prepared to be rocked, to have you own faith questioned and if you are willing to grow from this book.



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A Scrapbooking Mystery

A Scrapbooking Mystery Series

By:  Laura Childs

1.  Keepsake Crimes
2.  Photo Finished
3.  Bound For Murder
4.  Motif For Murder
5.  Frill Kill
6.  Death Swatch
7.  Tragic Magic
8.  Fiber & Brimstone

I am a little OCD in that I just really, HAVE to read my books in order. There is no way that I could pick up and book to read, and then find out it was the third or fourth in a series, nothing in the world could make me read that book until I had read the ones that come before it. I know it's crazy but that is just how I am, so I am sharing the list of books that I have reviewed, in order for your information, as well as for my own. Have to keep a log of it someplace so I don't forget!

Book Review : Fiber & Brimstone

Fiber and Brimstone by Laura Childs

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I have enjoyed this whole series, and I enjoyed this book just about as much, although I was completely mistified by the murdered! I had no idea, it caught me completely off guard!

Now, I have to say that Carmela was a little, well many a bit more than a little snarky this whole book, in fact she seemed really off, maybe PMS or something, but she started out so sweet and this book she was anything but sweet.

Also, Ava was really off this book too. She is normally the height of fashion, so confident and sure of herself, and in this book, she was clingly and so afraid. It was so not like her.

Not sure what happened, don't know if this is suppose to be growth of character's but I did not like the unconfident and whiney Ava, or the snarky and mean Carmela.  I'm also getting a little tired of Quigg always taking advantage of Carmela. She is a good person, does good work, but he is a little too much.  Maybe Babcock calling him a sleazy slimeball is almost on target. 

I loved the southern charm, the holiday spirit and the New Orleans flavor of the book, but I felt abandoned by the characters I had come to enjoy so much throughout the series, almost as if I was reading a different series altogether.

So, if you didn't like the previous books in the series, you might enjoy this one, but if you did like the previous books, be forewarned.



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Book Review: Tragic Magic

Tragic Magic by Laura Childs

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I am defintely in a reading vibe right now, so I finished book 6, and started book 7, and luckly it was a quiet night at home, just me and the girls, and while they watched episodes of "Dance Moms" on tv, I read another book.

Finally, after seven books we see the finalization of Carmela and Shamus's divorce, you know I was really starting to believe that it would never happen, that they would just continue this bantering back and forth forever, but in the last two books, I have noticed a change in Carmela tone and attitude to Shamus, it is no more of the, maybe he'll grow up and we can work it out, but more of the, I'm threw this is a waste of time.

I have got to tell you, I didn't not have a clue who the real murderer was, and at the very end, when things pinged for Carmela, I still had the wrong guy pegged. The guy who did it never even crossed my radar. Really, how bad is that? You would think after ready seven books in this series that I would have a handle on them and be able to pick out the murder, I just couldn't come up with a motive for the guy I had pegged, then I was completely caught off guard by who it was and the motive!

I think it's pretty good, when you can still get stumped by a writer after reading seven in the series. I still loved the history and facts of New Orleans and I still loved the scrapbooking information and tips. Those are the things that originally drew me to this series, and are part of what keeps me coming back.



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First Baby Step

All in all, when everything is said and done, the first real step to finding my way is going to have to be accepting that I am past the baby-making years and on to a new phase of life.

That is so hard, because I was in that phase for so long! I was told at 23 I would have trouble getting pregnant, got married at 25, and at 26 we started actively trying to get pregnant with medications, finally at 31 I had Tiernan, actively went back on medicines when he was only seven months old and got lucky, three months later I was pregnant and had Maeve right before my 33rd birthday, then had Molly right before my 36th birthday. I "knew" in my mind that she was my last, but in my heart I still wanted just one more.

The thing was, even after Molly, even though we weren't trying anymore, there was always that little chance. Even after Brad insisted and got his vasectomy there was still always that slight chance, and I held onto that in the back of my mind. I always held onto to the idea that there was a chance of an oops and one more baby, until my surgery. Now there are no more chances, no more oops. It's all over.

I know I should be thrilled, overjoyed that I have three healthy beautiful children and I am. I just had my hopes and dreams set on at least one more. I loved being pregnant, I loved giving birth, even if it was a scheduled c-section, and I loved those first sleepless months nursing. It was the greatest time in my life, a time when I felt the most alive, the most needed and that I had something wonderful to give to the world.

I know I have other gifts and talents, and I know that I am still important, but I don't feel that way. Not that I can no longer have babies, I feel lost. I feel like there is nothing that makes me special anymore and nothing I can do for anyone else. I know that isn't true, but herein lies my lostness. If I am every going to find my way out of the lost feeling, I have to come to terms with the fact that I am in a different phase of life, not the baby phase, but the mom phase, the wife phase, the almost teenager phase. Anything but the baby phase.

I'm trying, and maybe by putting it out there, by admitting to it in writing I will finally be able to say goodbye to that phase and move on, to be able to find my place and what I want to do and were I am suppose to be in this world. I just want to stop feeling lost!

Book Review: Death Swatch

Death Swatch by Laura Childs

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I love to Scrapbook, in fact I have a number of albums in progress for my children and for holidays and such. I am always checking out new techniques and supplies. So I guess it comes as no surprise that I liked this book.

When the author is describing Memory Mine, the Scrapbook story, I can see it clearly in my mind, and when she talks about a technique that they do in the store, I can clearly see exactly what she is talking about, and I think that is probably one reason that I really like this series.

Carmela has grown in the books, less dependent on the ever-present, and still soon-to-be-ex-husband Shamus after all these books. Yes, Shamus is still dragging his heels and not settling the divorce. The longer the series goes the more party-boy Shamus becomes and the more grown woman Carmela becomes.

Ava, her bet friend, is still there and more grown up and less flighty. But then again, it has been a long time since I read the first of the series. I started it when the series first came out, but then lost track of it waiting for the next book to come out, and just revisited it now while I am waiting for more books to come out in other series.

I tend to do that, get interested in one series and read all that are out in that series, then move on to another series. Kinda hoping that logging the books I have read here will help to keep me from losing a series again.

Anyway, the mystery revolves around Mardi Gradi, and the facts and history of the krewes that are included in the book, make it that much more fun. I find that I enjoy learning about the unquie way of life that is New Orleans, and since this book occur after Hurrcaine Katrina, and talks about the slow road back, I feel it is a great boast to the city. I think that the books have been a great resource and have given people insight into New Orleans.

Carmela get talked into invetigation the murder of a friend, and as that goes, he does a good job of putting together a lot of mall clue, that finally lead to the answer and who did the murder. Although there were some dead-ends and false leads, he finally stumbles onto the correct answers.



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Lost in Space

May of 2010, the time I became lost.  Completely lost and not knowing which way to go or how to get found.

May of 2010 was when I had my hysterectomy, and although it was needed. I was in tremendous pain from ovarian cysts and a fibroid in my uterus, and even though I said I was ready for it, and I wanted the pain gone, I really wasn't ready for it, what I really wanted was just one more baby, even though I was already 40.

So when I came home after the surgery, I found myself lost, I'm still lost. Since then we have been trying different hormones and combinations to make me feel more like me again, but I am still lost. Although the medicines are starting to make me feel like a person again and I feel like doing the fun thing with my family again, I am still lost.

Who am I now? What defines me? I'm still a woman, I just don't have most of those part anymore, and yet that sometime make me feel like less than a woman. I'm still a mom, but yet I don't feel like one anymore, I feel like me kid don't even need me anymore except as a taxi driver. I'm still a wife, but I don't feel like being much of one since then and I wonder how long he'll be able to stand that. I'm so lost.


I just want to find a place, a purpose for being now. I don't know where to look anymore, what to start with, or even how to figure it out. What once made me happy doesn't feel the same anymore, it still makes me happy, but there i a void, or empty space in it. I even tried sewing today, something that always made me feel good and like I had accomplished something. It felt good to sew, but something as missing, I still felt empty inside.


There is no magic pill out there that is going to take care of this, it is something that I have to figure out myself, I have to learn to deal with what has happened and come to terms with it and find a new purpose and plan. Just don't have and idea where to start.

Book Review: Grace Interrupted

Grace Interrupted by Julie Hyzy

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I have to admit that this particular series has felt so good to me to read. I love reading and getting to know Grace, as she picks herself up by the boot-straps and tries to build a new life for herself. A new job, getting to know the people there, which are all part of an "old crowd" that has worked there forever, being put in a boss position all the sudden by the death of her boss, then having to deal with her sister and her marriage to Grace's finace.

Grace holds her own, and is actually looked at as almost a peer by the police department. I mean it's a small town, and they have almost never seen a murder except on tv, so they were not up to handling the first one, let alone this second on, and Grace with an anayltical mind and ability to organize her thoughts realizes things the police miss.

In this book, Grace and Jack actually manage to go out to dinner, but real life just keeps getting in the way of them learning anything more that about each other, so they are still friends, and I love that about this book. There is no rush to have to have the main character having a relationship with someone, it is more real-life and feels more natural.

Now I just have to wait for the author to write some more in this series. Until then, I think I will go back and finish her other series, White House Chef Mystery.



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Book Review: Grace Under Presure

Grace Under Pressure by Julie Hyzy

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


At the library the other day, I picked up 5 books by this author, the two in this series and three in the White House series, in which I had read the first. I was sitting in the car at Boy Scouts trying to decide, do I read book two of White House or start the other. Well, since there were only two books, I started this one.

I loved this book. The history and grace of a large old Manor House full of art and treasures is amazing, and the way thing are decribed and detailed is wonderful, I can almost imagine myself sitting at the Manor House, and the care in with which Grace, the main character feels for the house is wonderful.

When a murder occur at the Manor House, the detectives are not prepared in this mall town, and really have almost now clue what to do, although they do work the case, it's a more laid-back approach, and Grace wants answers and he wants them now. So she digs around and come up with answers and passe them on to the police, yet they are not sure what to do with most of hat she says, but they don't get over-wrought at her. In the end, she solves the murder, and in he process solves a second scam scheme going on in town too.

Now the back of the book talks about Jack Embers, but he is not a romantic interest quite yet. They have talked, and had plans for a first date that got cancelled, so that as kinda nice, the author didn't throw in a romantic man to carry the main character, she carrie herself, and it will be good to take some time to let any relationship grow in that area.

Grace inherited an old "painted lady" house, you know the Victorians with all the trim and gingerbread, but it is not in the bet of shape. Her parents rented it out for a long time, then her mother moved back, but soon got sick and there was just more to do than there was money or time. So Grace rented out some of the rooms, to a nice freindly couple who own a small wine shop in town, Scott and Bruce. They are her friends and confidontes at thi point. She looks to them for alot, but also shares with them alot of pain and joys.

I thought the characters were intriging and I look forward to the next book to see where they go. I want to know more about these people, and in a book, that is hat keeps you reading. So, off to a doctors appointment with the next book tucked in my purse.



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Book Review: The Friday Night Knit Club

The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Over the past few weeks I have been reading alot of the Cozy Mystery genre, and I enjoy that genre. This book, I picked up from a friend purely for the knitting reference on the front cover. I love to knit and I thought it would be a fun read.

It is truely a good book, I laughed, I felt for the women, and I cried!

Georgia is a single-mom, who is raising her only daughter the best she can, while running a successful knitting store. On Friday nights a group of regulars come to knit and talk, and be treated to the budding chef that has become Georgia's daughter, Dakota. But, Georgia, after being burned by a high school friend, and then Dakota's father, rarely joins in on the conversations. In fact it seems that the whole knitting group is just barely breaking the ice with each other until events start unfolding that drag them closer together and bond them to each other, deeply.

The first event? A college student, hanging around the store all day, looking for Julia Roberts! Sounds funny right, but there was an article in the newspaper that was talking about famous stars that had taken up knitting, and a vague mention of a certain small shop in town, which could have been any shop, but this student took to be Georgia's and so she hangs around all day, buying and returning the same tape measure, then finally she bursts in the door during knitting club, freaking out everyone involved and panic ensues. But in this panic, walls begin to fall and we find out more about each person, and they each make connections to each other and the true friendship is formed.

It's a great book, a good read, and really about life, love and friendships. If you get a chance, pick it up and read.



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Book Review: State of the Onion

State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I have been searching all over for the Cozy Mystery genre. I have enjoyed them, but I have been looking for more. And just searching the shelf at the local library is not turning up much, so I look for recommendations here and elsewhere online. This book came up on a sidebar as something that people who read another book I had just finished also read and/or liked.

The book starts a little slow in the first chapter, although we have someone running across the White House lawn, and Secret Service in hot pursuit, it wasn't until well after this opening scene that I felt I got to know and understand the characters.

Olivia Paras is a chef at the White House, with dreams to be the head chef. She also is alot like most of us, if the Secret Service says the sky is green and you need to repeat that top everyone, she is like why? explain it to me and I'll do it, but don't just tell me to do it. That is how she gets involved in snooping in the mystery. She is told to forget it, but things aren't adding up and just wants answers, not to just do as you are told, just explain it to her. In some ways it reminded me a every soap opera on tv, if people would have just, one, told the truth and two, told the whole truth, none of the drama would have occurred.

I found I liked Olivia as a person, she was easy to relate to. She wasn't snooping to be famous or anything like that, she just wanted an honest answer and those were not forthcoming. I also found that the small kitchen crew were likable and fun to read about. You had Henry the head chef getting read to retire. Then there was Bucky, who had worked with the other option for head chef, and who seemed to have been wearing rose-colored glasses about the other contender, Laurel Ann, for most of the book, until he had to work with her again, and it was like a light-bulb moment, oh yeah, now I remember what it was like working with you!

There was a glimpse of life in the White House, and more of a real-life not what you see on tv or in movies kind of glimpse of life, and it was fun. There was also alot of history about the past presidents, likes and dislikes as to food, china patterns, and the different rooms in the White House and how dinner of different sizes are handled.

I really enjoyed this book, and found the lead character to be believable and likable and I am looking forward to reading more, honestly!



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Facebook Link

Since I started my Facebook page, I have had my blog linked together. I started doing it because of the book reviews, but since I have started writing all my book reviews at Good Reads, and they link it to my facebook page, then my blog, I was getting double posts of the book reviews on my facebook page, and I figured that might be a little annoying.

I also use my blog as my journal, to work out emotions and feelings and things like that, and so far that has been fine. I have had so much support from you all my friends, that have either already been there and done that, or are going through it, or just supporting me on the journey that I need to make.

The issue came up for the first time yesterday, when someone commented on me as a person after my blog post showed up. I have never had anyone do that, and it made me wonder what was going on. I don't feel that my commenting about trying to figure this whole parenting thing out means I am a bad person or a failure, and I didn't feel the comment was warranted by what I had wrote.

I really struggled with it, until someone I would consider a friend commented that they didn't feel the blog said anything to warrant the hostility that it was responded to with. So I realized that no matter what I say, there are going to be some people that are going to use it to call me names and make me feel like a failure and a bad person, and those are the people I do not need in my like, none of us need or deserve those people in our lives.

So to all of you that have found encouragement in what I have written, who have found support and fun, I am sorry to say that I am unlinking my blog from Facebook. This blog explaining my decision will be the last. From now on, if you want to read my blog, you will have to follow it separately. Know that it is with a heavy heart that I do this, but I also have to have the ability to use my blog to write about my emotions and my journey so that I can grow, and I don't need to fear who is going to read it and try to use it against me.

I love you all for the support and encouragement you have given me over the years, and I hate to take this away, but I need the protection at the moment! Thank you all for understanding!

Road Drama

After a whole summer of trying to work out plans with my brother-in-law for him and the kids to come up and visit, it never happened. So at the last minute my hubby decides that we will just pile the kids and his mother into the car and drive down for the weekend.

Now, let me just say that I was none to please about this trip. Nothing against family, it was just short notice to get everything packed and the animals taken care of, and school is starting next week and I haven't done a lick of school shopping, but nothing I would have said would have made a difference. His mother was excited about the grandkids coming up, and now they weren't going to be able to, and of course my hubby felt he needed to "fix" that and take her to see the grandkids.

If you have kids, you know what a road trip is like. I have three, and the ages causes most of the issues. My oldest two, or wave one as we call them are only 18 months apart. 11 and 10 as of right now. This means that one minute they are playing together like best buds and the next they are fighting like cats and dogs, and I do mean that literally, scratching and clawing at each other. The third is a full 3 years under than the 10 and 4 1/2 years younger than the older, which means there is just enough age difference for them to not be able to get along at all most of the time. There are rare occassions that they manage to play together nicely for a brief bit, but that is it. I know this, it is a fact of life, although I do NOT remember fighting with my brothers anywhere near this much when I was a kid.

To try to stem the amount of fighting in the car, we arrange the seating pattern, we take blankets and pillows so they can "divide" the seat, and then books and games, and there is probably enough junk in the car, but we managed to make the drive from Indiana to North Carolina without anything too bad, or so the hubby and I thought. It really went pretty well.

You also have to realize that we drove down on Friday and back on Sunday, so there wasn't alot of time between the long trip there and the long trip home. Even given the short stay, all in all I thought the kids did well. They only had one fight on the way home, one, that was it. I was pretty darned impressed. But there-in lies the story.

We are driving back, and I think we had already made it out of North Carolina and were into Tennessee. Maeve and Tiernan were trying to play a card game in the back row called "bologna" that he learned at camp, and somewhere in the last few hands of the cards, Maeve gets upset, to her Tiernan was changing the rules, he thought he explained them, but apparently something came up that he thought he explained, she thought he didn't, and so the story goes. They were screaming, and I was having the devil of a time trying to talk to them, mostly because my mother-in-law is sitting there yelling back at them and there is no way I can talk over her and them and try to settle this, so she tells my husband to just pull over and we will move seats.

Okay, so it did piss me off a little that he did what she said, it also pissed me off that he refused to get into the talk, that he didn't try to talk to the kids, but I think he figured with her yelling there was no use. Of course once he stopped the car and got her out of the car, he did talk to the kids and defuse the situation, but at the same time, she should have let us parent. I mean, she never even gave u a chance to react to them before she as turned around yelling. 

Much later in the trip, in fact just in Kentucky, almost to Indiana, we stopped for a restroom break, and they had one of those stupid claw game machines outside the restroom. Whose brilliant idea that was, I'd like to string him up by his toes! Molly was worn out, ready to be home and needing to sleep. She also was missing her animals! That child has more stuffed animals than she knows what to do with, but each and every one of them has a name and she remembers it and can tell you all about each one.

Well, she saw a purple glittlery monkey in that machine and wanted a dollar to get it. Now, we tried the talk about how the machines don't work and all that, but she was just too tired for this, she broke down crying, begging up to go back for "Mr. Bananas". Yes, she already had him named. And she cried and cried and cried. What she really needed as to take a nap, but that was not possible in the car, and so she was going to have to cry it out, as much as we all didn't want to have to listen to her cry, that was what was going to have to happen. In about 10 minutes at the most, she would be fine and would be apologizing to us all for crying.

Problem was that she was sitting with my mother-in-law, who for some reason didn't understand, didn't care, or didn't like the way we were parenting through this, so she gives my seven-year old the meanest "if looks could kill stare" and told her to stop crying. Trust me, I have seen that look many a time, but there was no reason to give it to a even year old, and especially when she was just starting to calm down.  Not even sure she heard what was said, but the fact that she said something to her at the piviotal point when she was ready to calm down and it be over was the major problem because when you do that it just make her start over and cry more. You would have thought that she would have figured that out after all these years, but she has no clue. But then again, she is the one that is always giving in to the kids on everything, which makes my job that much harder.

Well, I guess she was in a bad mood, because she turned to Molly and said, loudly that "I am never going on a trip with you again! Between your brother and sister fighting (they had ONE fight in the nine hour drive) and you crying like this, I refuse. I will never go on a trip with you again, the other grandkids will just have to come see me!"
  
I was so mad! Not that Molly heard her, but that he would make that kindof threat to the kid! I mean really?!  I don't think Brad even heard what she said, He is really good at tuning her out and ignoring what she says or does. I don't think he realizes that the kids are watching her, and learning from her behavior, he thinks they are only learning from us, but I have seen my kids act like her on more than one occassion, so I know they are watching, how to deal with that is a rant for another day.

The thing is, her threat to never go on another trip....the kids could have cared less. It would just mean one less person in the car.I mean, if you are going to threaten them with something, threaten them with something that matter, like taking away the tv, or the computer or the phone. It was like the silliest thing to say and the meanest at the same time. And if she thought that saying she would never go see them again, would make the kids feel bad, she was wrong, because they know their father will make trips to visit them again.

So today, I have to figure out what things I need to say to the kids, how I need to act and what behaviors I need to reinforce this week, to counter-act two days in the car with their grandmother.

Book Review: If Walls Could Talk

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If Walls Could Talk by Juliet Blackwell

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Another cozy mystery in my list of books that I have read, is that surprising anyone at this point. So I like them, I like to get into them and the way characters develop. So this was a new one, the first in a series and a new author to me at that.

This is the first in the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery Series, and it is a little different from the other cozy mysteries in that the police aren't actually investigating this murder, in fact the only person who seems to be concerned with the murder at all is Mel Turner, our female lead. After a divorce, the unexpected death of her mother has her taking over her fathers construction business, instead of hiding in Paris licking her wounds. The business is good, they specialize in restoring old homes to their former glory, and believe it or not Mel is really good at what she does, which probably is one reason she didn't do so well in her marriage to a professor.

A friend, Matt Addax, and aging rock start at that, buys an old house to flip, and although she agrees to do a walk through for him on the house before he buys it, that was all that her involvement was suppose to be. Until Matt's teenage son calls and wants her to check on him, they had a do-it-yourself demo party that included drinks, not the best combination with power tools. She stops by to find a passed out Matt, empty beer and wine bottles, and alot of damage, then as they are walking through the house, Matt's business partner and friend Kenneth walks up too them with a nail gun, nail shots into his abdomen and his hand sawed off. Kenneth passes away at the hospital and what seems to be almost no investigate ensues.

During the brief, one day search of the place, she finds out that her business name has been forged on the permits, and Matt has asked her to help finish the remodel because he needs to recoup the money. And thus begins the twisted a sorrid tell that ends up involving ghosts and spirts from at least three generations before any work ever gets done on the house!

It took me alot to actually get into the book. I read one chapter, then pushed myself to read the next, then pushed on, it was only about a third of the way in did I finally find myself enjoying the story and looking for some closure. I'm not sure about the series yet. I kinda liked Mel, I really like Graham, old family friend come back into her life, and the teenage boys, Caleb and Dylan, Matt's son and her ex=stepson whom she still has a good relationship with and is in her life more than you would think an ex would be. Her Dad and his best friend, Stan are there, and although they started the business, they have stepped out and let Mel take over. The original reasoning that Mel gives was that her father was just unable to handle it after her mother's death, but late in this story we find out that his wife was a big part of the business, and I think he stepped aside on purpose, I think he had it in his mind to bring Mel in, give her a purpose after the divorce and to settle her down and make her deal with life. She thinks this is temporary and that her Dad will take back over soon, but I don't think he has any plans of taking it back over. So there is part of me that is ready for the next book to see how that sub-plot matures.

Overall, it was a good book, and I defintely think I will read the second book in the series, and I think I will reserve judgement on it until then. Not sure if it will be a favorite or not, but looking forward to learning more about the characters.



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